(Dark)
The timetable says I was off yesterday, but in fact, I worked, which, after several days off, made it a Monday, hence I’m writing today, not yesterday… if that makes any sense.
WordPress have apparently taken my annual dues off me again (seriously? another year? already?) so I guess I’ll just have to keep on blogging…
Ben arrived safely and is now installed in his Tokyo apartment, and has started teaching English, or possibly Scots, or at least that there is such a place as Scotland. There are some rumours of hand drawn maps, I’d quite like to see that.
Meanwhile here at base camp I have no disaster to share, nor any moving insight into life, not even a new song. (For those waiting on the “steam pudding song”, it will appear, but there are some readers that I’d like to perform it for first). I do have a tiny snippet from work.
I’m not generally inclined, (or technically, supposed to) share details from my job, but I found this one too good to keep. Much of my work is co-ordinating the vast effort of taxi-ing school (shall we say ) students to and fro.
Today I encountered a new name.
I am no stranger to unusual (and often badly mispelled) nomenclature. We move childern of many ethnicities and unusual backgrounds, and that doesn’t even begin to touch the Saturday night crowd. Cosmopolitan, doesn’t really do it justice.
I once knew a (surely-“the”)”Gabriel Knight” and perhaps I will yet see him rise to fame in the public eye, but he formally changed his name as an adult, which is surely a bold step, but a different thing.
Today I stumbled over the car sent for, “Harrison Dark”.
Man or woman, I have no idea (I mentally resolve the name as a she) . I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered a more fabulous (in all senses) name. I can only imagine she(or he) is destined for an eventful life.
Not just any life though. One cannot reasonably be (become) Harrison Dark – accountant,
Best Selling Author/Playwright [ A new book by…].
Actor(ress) [Starring…],
Stage Hyptnotist [Enter the mysterious world of…]
Artist/Architect [An intriguing piece by …]
Theoretical Physicist [ … Matter Explained].
Rock Bassist/Drummer (not sure, maybe violin) [ The….]
Dabbler in Secrets Man was not meant to know [Founder of the “…” movement]
Bond Villian(ess)….
Of course one assumes that somewhere there is already Mrs (Daisy?) Dark who is a mum on the PTA…although she presumably does the school run in something menacing (taxi filling in while the darkmobile is off the road?)
Sometimes my mind just get too much time to think…but I wish Miss (or Master) H. Dark every success in their chosen life.
Tony Wilson – Dictator/Philanthropist/Billionaire…. hmmmm.
Next week on IaDL: Somekind of disaster must be due.
Dalmallyfest the Asylum 