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April 21, 2010 by David J Rodger

Sleepless night in Bristol

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦01:22 GMT, Thursday 8th April 2010.  Soft lamps glowing in corners of desk, and behind me, where the sloping roof comes down to a low wall and the coffee table there.  Life support blowing warm air across my bare...
April 08, 2010 by David J Rodger

Letters – fan mail from Japan (continued) – name for a new Great Old One (Cthulhu Mythos)

I’m pretty pleased. I had an email from this guy in Japan a few weeks back; he’s been reading my novel EDGE and wanted to know if the entity that seeps into the story (Great Old One) had been named. I replied that it hadn’t, but, I was planning on...
April 06, 2010 by David J Rodger

Cabaret Voltaire Nostalgia

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦00:00 GMT, 29/30th March 2010.  Black and bleak outside, a hungry darkness against the glass canopy behind me, the cold ready to suck out all warmth from your bones.  Winter is supposedly over, but there’s no sign...
March 29, 2010 by David J Rodger

Sunday morning licking out a Portuguese tart – don’t tell the girlfriend

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦12:14 GMT, Sunday 28th March 2010. Bright sunshine on a cold day is flooding in through the glass canopy behind my head; despite the miserable forecast of heavy rain. Got up early, jumped in the Rocket (joined by Richy)...
March 28, 2010 by David J Rodger

Dog Eat Dog 100,000 words, Bad Bacon, Social Excess

¦ Dialling in from workstation ¦13:02 GMT, Friday 19th March 2010.Feels like an age since I’ve had the time and brain space to write anything down. Life is a blur stretching back weeks now. I’m sitting at my desk, with a baby blue polyester blanket wrapped...
March 19, 2010 by David J Rodger

Letters - Fan mail from Japan

I got this email from a guy in Japan, and I'm pleased as punch.  Nice to think my work's getting read as far away as that.Here's the email, I've stripped out his identity for privacy:> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:59 +0900> From: XXXX@pop02.odn.ne.jp>...
March 17, 2010 by David J Rodger

Desert dunes, speed boats, extravagant luxury and concrete sand and dust.

¦ dialling in from Umm Suqeim #, Dubai ¦   01:34 UAE, Sunday 28th Feb 2010.    I'm hunched forward in a big L-shaped settee, firm but soft oatmeal fabric, white ceramic tiles beneath my bare feet, mercifully cool against...
February 27, 2010 by David J Rodger

The Rebirth of my social life

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦17:13 GMT, Sunday 21st Feb 2010. Sitting in the warm breeze of life support, wrapped up in Starsky and squinting at my screen through the throb of a receding hangover and the general fug of a non-functioning brain. ...
February 21, 2010 by David J Rodger

Crazy Chronicles RELOADED – The Wolfman – Dog Eat Dog 86,000 words

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦19:27 GMT, Saturday 13th Feb 2010. Buzzing on coffee and bopping up and down in my chair to the tunes thumping through the big speakers mounted either corner of my desk. Currently listening to : "Vertical" by Vibrasphere,...
February 13, 2010 by David J Rodger

Mexican hangover-again, crap Spook Country, Wordpress and vBulletin

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 11:02 GMT, Sunday 7th Feb 2010.  Cold grey misty light flooding into the sloping room through the glass canopy behind me.  Enigma’s first album is playing on the turntable below my desk; vinyl, I can hear the...
February 07, 2010 by David J Rodger

Book of Eli, MW2, 30 Seconds to Mars, Project Echo, Uncharted 2... my handlebar moustache

It’s been a good week. I’d gone to Newcastle but came back early, after discovering the Jesmond bubble no longer existed.  The privilege of jumping on an early flight cost me £70 but it was worth it.  Why linger in a place when you’re unhappy. ...
February 01, 2010 by David J Rodger

Happy Sunday

¦ dialling in from Hayling Island ¦10:38 GMT, Sunday 17th Jan 2010.  It’s only a day since my last entry but feels much longer.Languid, blissful time here.Yesterday: Drove to a pub called The Raft, 4 miles along the shore. Finished Chapter 19 (already...
January 17, 2010 by David J Rodger

A weekend writing by the sea

¦ dialling in from Hayling Island ¦09:13 GMT, Saturday 16th Jan 2010.  I’m sitting at a round table in the heart of a small lounge.  The wall ahead of me is dominated by a window that looks out onto a ridge of shingle, beyond which is the vast...
January 16, 2010 by David J Rodger

Reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula by thunderous firelight

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦19:19GMT, Tuesday 12th Jan 2009.  Sat in glow of one tablelamp.  Snow is swirling beyond the glass canopy behind me… it’s freezing out there, bitter winds and a nasty wet snow which may, or may not lie.  I’m...
January 12, 2010 by David J Rodger

Dog Eat Dog 72,000 words

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦19:28 GMT, Thursday, 7th Jan 2010.Thursday already. Where has this week gone?Monday was first day back at work after being off 2 months.  Compassionate leave. A little bit of a bumpy re-entry but fundamentally fine. ...
January 07, 2010 by David J Rodger

A New Year, A New Decade

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦12:27 GMT, Saturday 2nd January 2010.  I'm sitting in the dusty, cluttered chamber of the Sky Bunker, with its cracked roof a reminder of the storms that hit the house whilst I've been away.  Enigma's first album...
January 02, 2010 by David J Rodger

A ceremonial burning

¦ dialling in from Jesus Mound ¦ 15:56 GMT  Tuesday 29th December 2009.  I'm sitting at the oak refectory table.  A few occasional lamps cast a warm glow in small areas of this cavernous room.  A log fire is blazing in the corner,...
December 30, 2009 by David J Rodger

The Final Christmas

¦ dialling in from Jesus Mound ¦14:06 GMT, Saturday 26th December 2009.  I say it's Saturday but it really could be any day and I wouldn't know the difference.  A combination of the natural breakdown of normal time-keeping during the Christmas...
December 26, 2009 by David J Rodger

Snow

¦ dialling in from Jesus Mound ¦08:40 GMT, Friday 18th December 2009.  I'm sitting at the oak refectory table in that beautiful blue white light that comes with heavy snow cover.  To my left, double french doors and two wide windows look out...
December 18, 2009 by David J Rodger

Rain, rain, rain

¦ dialling in from Jesus Mound ¦13:24 GMT, Wednesday 16th December 2009.  It doesn't seem to have stopped raining for a month now.  It's a cold, unpleasant sort of rain, not helped by the lack of heating in the house.  Can't afford to have...
December 16, 2009 by David J Rodger

Moving On

10th December. Bristol.  Sky Bunker.  Tomorrow will be one month since mum died.  But I'm not going to dwell on this, be maudlin or negative.  It's going to mark a point where I move on. I tried going back to work on Monday. ...
December 13, 2009 by David J Rodger

Newcastle days, coming to the end of this period

¦ dialling in from Jesus Mound ¦I'm sitting in the cavernous space of the extended lounge at the back of the house.  Darkness pressing up against the windows and French doors.  The place looks just as it did when mum died.  My sister's...
December 03, 2009 by David J Rodger

Numb, a shadow of myself. Bruges - recovery

I've been scribbling down bits of thought in my A4 spiral bound notebook over the past days. Here's a collection of these scribbles.November 13. My mum came to me today in a waking dream. Two days since she died.  I was on the Metro, an urban commuter...
November 27, 2009 by David J Rodger

Strange Days - and a magazine interview

I woke up today and felt normal.I'm going through the grieving process. First days in the house after mum died were horrible. The house had lost its soul. It was unfamiliar, cold (literally) and unwelcoming.  I've got a lot of memories from this...
November 18, 2009 by David J Rodger

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