Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Argonia]

Are you sleeping well?

Was a bit poor a few weeks ago but caught up last night with a decent six hours and was up and raring for action. Thanks for asking. Appetite is fine though, no problems there. Used to be borderline annorexic (I stress the borderline - I don;'t want to overegg the pudding) in my worst days in a sublet council block in Hackney unemployed and where a guy was shot through the wall in the block opposite, at the time of the illegal and vile invasion of Iraq. My friend from college and editor at the Cherwell student paper Hadley Freeman was annorexic in her sixth form days and has written a book about her experiences bought by Fourth Estate. I haven't followed Hadley too closely but think she got caught up in the terrible trans/feminist debate which has been way over my head and which I have basically avoided engaging with. But she has also written about 1980s films in a book and about her Jewish ancestors which were interesting books.

@HadleyFreeman

 

[equationgirl]

Only, and please don't take this the wrong way, you seem to be more on the manic side recently Argonia .

 

[Argonia]

Only, and please don't take this the wrong way, you seem to be more on the manic side recently Argonia .

It's a peaceful transition to democracy equationgirl, there is a lot of work to do. All I am is a humble writer and historian so each day I marshall my quills and get into action spurting out my utter nonsense all over cyberspace. Was born to write - it's my Max Weberian vocation - and am starting to have just a tiny bit of fun after a pretty dreadful life of poverty and obscurity like George Orwell in his down and out days in Paris.

 

[Argonia]

Only, and please don't take this the wrong way, you seem to be more on the manic side recently Argonia .

Talking of manic - and the manichean other side of depression - there was a guy from school called Mackenzie Taylor who was a comedian and most of his comedy was about his mental health problems and he sadly committed suicide.

Mackenzie Taylor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[equationgirl]

Talking of manic - and the manichean other side of depression - there was a guy from school called Mackenzie Taylor who was a comedian and most of his comedy was about his mental health problems and he sadly committed suicide.

Mackenzie Taylor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A family member with bipolar disorder tried to commit suicide last year, that's why I'm concerned about you.

 

[Argonia]

A family member with bipolar disorder tried to commit suicide last year, that's why I'm concerned about you.

I appreciate your concern a lot, it means a great deal to me. But I'm fine. Just pottering along in my local community living my simple life reading and writing. As for your friend - glad they didn't do it in the end. I think there are about 5000 suicides a year and reckon we should build a monument to them so their names get remembered and the stories of their struggles and difficult lives get brought out into the open. Nobody much remembers poor old Mackenzie Taylor now - which is a shame. I never got a chance to hear his comedy and bet it was quite painful as he chronichled his surging ups and downs like a stock market out of control.

 

[equationgirl]

I appreciate your concern a lot, it means a great deal to me. But I'm fine. Just pottering along in my local community living my simple life reading and writing. As for your friend - glad they didn't do it in the end. I think there are about 5000 suicides a year and reckon we should build a monument to them so their names get remembered and the stories of their struggles and difficult lives get brought out into the open.

Well just remember there are people looking out for you here.

It was a family member, not a friend.

 

[Argonia]

Well just remember there are people looking out for you here.

It was a family member, not a friend.

OK that must have been horrible for you, hope the situation is better now. My brother was recently attacked by boys in Hampshire - had a drink thrown at him and was attacked with concrete and stones - so that fucked up my sleep worrying about him but the police caught them using CCTV footage from the British Transport police and have hoepfully resolved the situation. Then I had a cancer scare that I will spare you the details of but my GP got me sorted out. So my sleep has been haywire but now stabilising a bit.

 

[krtek a houby]

I appreciate your concern a lot, it means a great deal to me. But I'm fine. Just pottering along in my local community living my simple life reading and writing. As for your friend - glad they didn't do it in the end. I think there are about 5000 suicides a year and reckon we should build a monument to them so their names get remembered and the stories of their struggles and difficult lives get brought out into the open.

With the best of love and respect, your activity here doesn't come across as fine.

Is there someone you can talk to? Besides us?

It's not easy watching this play out. Its worrying.

Meant without trying to interfere or patronise.

 

[Argonia]

With the best of love and respect, your activity here doesn't come across as fine.

Is there someone you can talk to? Besides us?

It's not easy watching this play out. Its worrying.

Meant without trying to interfere or patronise.

Don't worry my friend! I am on a brief break from my uni job and writing as fast as I possibly can. Will have to ease off when I go back to work.

 

[Argonia]

With the best of love and respect, your activity here doesn't come across as fine.

Is there someone you can talk to? Besides us?

It's not easy watching this play out. Its worrying.

Meant without trying to interfere or patronise.

Where are you in Japan anyway? I don't think I ever found out

 

[krtek a houby]

Where are you in Japan anyway? I don't think I ever found out

Am currently in a small space that feels like it's decreasing every day.


Let's hope all our fortunes change for the better.

Stay safe and sound.

 

[Argonia]

Am currently in a small space that feels like it's decreasing every day.


Let's hope all our fortunes change for the better.

Stay safe and sound.

Thanks, どもありがとござます

 

[equationgirl]

Argonia any chance you could build a break of aan hour or two each day, away from screens? Take a walk or something?

 

[Argonia]

Argonia any chance you could build a break of aan hour or two each day, away from screens? Take a walk or something?

The doctors told me to go for walks. I try and get out and get a coffee. Then I have a break at 4 for my daily Zoom call with my mother.

 

[Argonia]

Argonia any chance you could build a break of aan hour or two each day, away from screens? Take a walk or something?

There is a big screen in the centre of Woking with Wimbledon on with deckchairs so I might try and watch a game for a break. I tried to watch the Emma Raducanu game but couldn't find it on BBC Two as it was just a couple of blokes.

 

[equationgirl]

There is a big screen in the centre of Woking with Wimbledon on with deckchairs so I might try and watch a game for a break. I tried to watch the Emma Raducanu game but couldn't find it on BBC Two as it was just a couple of blokes.

She's withdrawn I think, so the schedule might have changed.

 

[Argonia]

Argonia any chance you could build a break of aan hour or two each day, away from screens? Take a walk or something?

I could try reading a copy of the Grauniad I suppose but I think it might infuriate me

 

[equationgirl]

I could try reading a copy of the Grauniad I suppose but I think it might infuriate me

Lol

 

[Argonia]

She's withdrawn I think, so the schedule might have changed.

I wanted to watch the game where she had her tragic hyperventilating attack but couldn't find it. I might log off entirely for the England game against Denmark tonight

 

[Argonia]

Argonia any chance you could build a break of aan hour or two each day, away from screens? Take a walk or something?

I took your advice and went downstairs and spoke to my neighbour with the three cats for an hour. Didn't realise before she was married to an Arsenal footballer.

 

[equationgirl]

I took your advice and went downstairs and spoke to my neighbour with the three cats for an hour. Didn't realise before she was married to an Arsenal footballer.

That wasn't quite what I expected but well done on taking a decent break.

 

[Pickman's model]

I took your advice and went downstairs and spoke to my neighbour with the three cats for an hour. Didn't realise before she was married to an Arsenal footballer.

Obviously anyone with three cats will know something about football

 

[Pickman's model]

I could try reading a copy of the Grauniad I suppose but I think it might infuriate me

Also it won't take you long. Maybe read one of your new books

 

[Argonia]

Also it won't take you long. Maybe read one of your new books

I've already forgotten who you recommeded. Fallago and Simione or something? Can't remember where the link was

 

[equationgirl]

I've already forgotten who you recommeded. Fallago and Simione or something? Can't remember where the link was

It was further up the thread I think

 

[Argonia]

Obviously anyone with three cats will know something about football

She said she used to go to Highbury all the time and said she went to away matches and has been to pretty much every ground in the country. Has watched every game in the Euros on telly and fancies Roberto Mancini. Her husband in his later days played for Leyton Orient and Woking and it took her five years before she realsied he couldn't read and write

 

[Argonia]

It was further up the thread I think

Different thread I think, I've lost track now

 

[Pickman's model]

I've already forgotten who you recommeded. Fallago and Simione or something? Can't remember where the link was

Huxley - brave new world
Solzhenitsyn - day in the life of Ivan denisovitch
Shalamov - Kolyma tales
Orwell - 1984
Fallada - alone in Berlin
Pasternak - Dr zhivago

Also have a look for good soldier svejk (sp?) which has the benefit of being funny

 

[Argonia]

Huxley - brave new world
Solzhenitsyn - day in the life of Ivan denisovitch
Shalamov - Kolyma tales
Orwell - 1984
Fallada - alone in Berlin
Pasternak - Dr zhivago

Also have a look for good soldier svejk (sp?) which has the benefit of being funny

Thanks. Came across the good soldier in Guildford library and had a right laugh