My Parents Have Been Dead For Many

I Do Tend To Look Back To My Parents Generation And Think Wow! What A Great Way To Be, To Live With One Person For A Lifetime, To Bring Your Kids Up In These Really Solid Families.

And So We Stayed Out In The Garden Of The Old House Until We Couldn't Kick A Ball, Laughing In The Gathering Twilight, Making The Most Of The Good Weather And All The Days That Were Left, Our Little Game Watched Only By Next Door's Cat, And Every Star In The Heavens.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

The Most Convincing Argument Against Early Parenthood Is That You Are In A Relationship That Is Likely To Fall Apart Before That Child Grows Up.

If Someone Does Something Illegal On Twitter - Like Incite Hatred, Or Make Racist Remarks, Or Threaten To Rip Someone's Intestines Out If They Insult Justin Bieber - Then There Has To Be Some Way Of Censuring Them.