Archives – 2003 – August  

Starsailor? ARSE-HAILER
Read post
— 10 Aug 2003 Tanya Headon Comment

Of course my serene mood was soon rudely shattered. While willing the thermometer ever higher, hoping for it to reach the happy point at which cheapo Taiwanese stereo components melt into unconductive puddles, a headline caught my eye that caused me […]

Thus I have won
Read post
— 8 Aug 2003 Tanya Headon Comment

I’ve only just noticed – and not because of the reason you might imagine. Possibly what that Tom Ewing fellow thought, I would be head down in an alcoholic stupor coming up only for alka-seltzer when he pulled this fast one. One day I ret[…]

Latest comments on FT

  3. Tom, I loved loved loved these polls and participated obsessively, until one day (it was March 2023) I just stopped…

  5. I feel sad that I couldn't persistently engage in every poll as much as I'd have liked - and not…

  7. Thanks for doing the polls, Tom, and for writing this lovely, considered, reflective piece. It’s given me closure on my…

  8. Lovely. I drifted away 18 months or so ago (I liked being all in on it and life stuff just…