08 March, 2004

The ladyfriend and I are so happy, Super Step Dad has fitted our kitchen in Eastbourne and it is fabulous. He was incredible and, in one weekend, removed eight months of stress from my shoulders. I now feel as happy as the day I picked up the keys from the estate agent and can not wait to start painting it.- We set sail for Eastbourne on Wednesday morning, smock and beret in hand.

I was in the bath this morning and I had one of those moments of realisation. I was flapping my feet about and was looking at the water and the refracting waves (the transmission of wave through dense media) and I was thinking how people like Da Vinci and his like made all those discoveries that benefit all man kind. I then thought, I'm not going to be one of those people who do that or for that matter engineer bridges like Brunel, I'm just going to gently pass through this world trying to leave as little mess as possible. It made me feel quite content and rather happy. Why anyone wants to be famous is beyond me, better a life spent in quiet disbelief than one imbued with self dillusion.

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