Tales Of The Gurrier

The internet is broken here in Gurrier Towers. Broken in a way that leaves NTL bereft of the ability to give the merest hint that it may be fixed it before I grow old and grey with rage. I have spoken to a series of timid and broken men who assure me that the important ‘Modem Support Team’ are the gentlemen I must speak to. They and only they can cure what ails me. However it is with great regret that they must inform this impertinent customer that the MST are extremely busy and important gentlemen and cannot come to the phone right now. Perhaps if I would like to hang up that would be appreciated and no more will be said regarding the matter. And so it has gone for the past week. Tomorrow, perhaps tomorrow I will finally break and bring murderous oaths upon their heads.

For this and other reasons I have been neglecting the site recently.

My eyes hurt these days. As my ageing cranium begins to collapse unto itself my eyeballs are beginning creak slightly. It is off to the opticularist with me on Wednesday where no doubt he will join the myriad other health professionals who have advised me over the years that I am falling to bits. I may need glasses or to stop staring at computer screens for six hours a day. I hope I can be fixed with glasses as computer screens are an occupational hazard.

I trapped a nerve in my back…punching mushrooms. Shut up ok. I’ll fucking punch mushrooms if I feel like it. Little fungi bastards. I did this foolish thing and I hurt my back again only this time in new and more interesting (read painful) ways. NTL is also to blame for this.

So now I can’t see, my eyes hurt, my back is fucked and the internet connection is arsed up. Pissing brilliant so it is.

Other Business:

I have created a permanent page for Flickr Fiction as it slowly gathers a modest following. You will find it over there on the right. It lists the guidelines and rules for participating such as they are. I will be updating it on a weekly basis for anyone who wishes to join in or follow the Flickr Fiction group.

Honourable mention here should go Andrew Losowsky a talented writer who came up with his own version of Fliction a couple of years ago. Andrew was kind enough to post some comments here and I will return the compliment by directing you to his site and his Fliction pages which are due to be published as a book in 2007. From small acorns folks.

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