Saturday, 5 June 2010
Wracked with guilt I have written an apology to Miss Phillimore.
“Dear Miss Phillimore
I am writing to apologise for my somewhat grumpy reply earlier. My only excuse, and it is a poor one, is that I am suffering from a rare form of dysentery at the moment with concomitant sleeplessness. If the new image is no good I can borrow a friend’s camera tonight and fake something suitable.
Yours sincerely
Mr Pearl esq”
As I was transcribing the above email a seagull cruised sharklike past the window. We are at such a height here as to be level with that bird’s most common flightpath. It is disconcerting to be eye to yellow eye with such a beast.
