Let the Skyfall

Oh the temptation, my latest enquiry is from an acupuncturist with some other esoteric speciality like cranial sacral therapy and he's studying Chinese medicine,  imagine having that on hand, in your actual house.  It's only just dawned on me, what I need to advertise for is a tenant who's a personal trainer, facialist, hairdresser and wardrobe stylist, with a car and we can share driving each other (not mad). I'd actually cut the rent in half for all that. Whereas what I really need is a damn publisher and concentrate on writing the next book. You see this is a bit of a dream world, in which a blog becomes a vehicle for all your wishes and you can try that whole visualising thing, where dreams are made real.

So, I should begin the letter from an Irish mother to her second son.... ‘I'm sorry pet but reinstatement to your room might have to wait. And because you're such an understanding, insightful philosophical student with a sharp grasp of economics you'll get this and thank me for it one day. It will give you the hunger to strive, to achieve, to buy that brownstone in New York with the granny flat.’

Ironically, first son much prefers his new arrangement in the penthouse/attic, he has a much bigger space, a TV his brother has to request use of and, worst of all, with no spare room for his visiting girlfriend she has nowhere else to stay other than his room. And I don’t think he’s sleeping on the sofa.

Lodger No.2 is excited about a house he's just seen in Ranelagh, sharing with a photographer, very cool place he says, I think it's the right move, for all of us. And he wants us to stay friends, it was a short reasonably pleasant lesson for both of us. And the boiler miraculously started working again today before the engineer came, bringing all the relief I needed that both lodgers will be warm and, hopefully, happy.

So, while the chicken lickens run amok telling us the sky will fall in, we will admire the horizon where the sea that separates us from the rest of the world meets the sky that hovers over all of us and only look at the blue bits.