Thursday 6 March 2008

Running on empties

On my desk as I write there are:

8 cans of Blackthorn cider
3 mugs (one aubergine, one black and one spotty)
At least four cigarette packets (others may be buried)
Numerous CD and DVD cases
1 glass and a bottle of fizzy water
A plate
2 Coke bottles.

All are empty.

My bank account is also empty. The fact that there is a (full) box of (empty) wine bottles in the kitchen waiting to go to the bottle bank may well have something to do with this. I am reluctant to contemplate the connection.

Actually I am so reluctant to contemplate it that I shall remark instead how odd a word starts to look when you write it a lot of times - e.g. empty. Empty, empty, empty, empty - see what I mean?

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