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Zoe, Brussels doyenne of the bloggers and Princess of the Written Word, has turned her wonderfully successful and much-loved blog into a book - My Boyfriend is a Twat (the book).

According to one review on Amazon, it is “finally or at last or something likely in english … yep yep yep … wonderful beautiful so marvelous sproing sproing sproing juchhu …”. This did it for me. I bought a copy.

You should buy a copy too.

Then swing by to see Zoe and say thank you.

I am now married.

I am also still alive, despite the best efforts of a large man in a large car, who cut me up on Montgomery roundabout and sent me flying off my scooter. I have a sore thumb. The scooter is written off.

I was actually quite upset. But now I’m okay. Thanks for asking.

I have just read My Secret History by Paul Theroux and it was loathsome and brilliant.

I will now stop start sentences with “I”. Or shoot me.

I’m skiving off work and school, blowing my noise and whispering consolingly to myself, trying to shake a dose of the ‘flu. No chicken in chicken nuggets, so it looks like I’m not dying.

Yesterday’s lying in bed feeling sorry for myself was brightened by my boss phoning me up and shouting at me for forty-five minutes.

Everybody else is having fun.

Bastards.

Books keeping me company as I languish in a snotty hole of self-pity:

Stalin - The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
This book will save your life by A.M Homes
The Boys from Brazil By Ira Levin
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Essential Pritchett By V.S. Pritchett
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller