As it will become clear shortly, there's an apparent grand design beginning to creep into these columns in so far as I find myself once again plundering last months effort for at least the starting point of this one. This may appear to be part of some elaborately thought out, post-post modern strategy that works itself out as some kind of thematic loop that eventually resolves itself sometime in 2015 with the revelation that it was all, like, connected, man, y'know? Or that it was all some master plan to provide the basis for my first book. No. Up to now this has quite definitely been a strategy based on expediency and desperation. Put simply, the internal monologue goes something like this - "Oh chuff, here's the deadline.....again! What am I going to write about?  I haven't got anything to write about! Oh, bugger. What did I write about last time...........er......er, OK, l'll use that". Although, if this does actually turn out to be a proper strategy that does eventually form the basis of a book that sells several million copies, then of course it was deliberate all along! I'll just have to make sure this intro is excised from the record, of course.

So, anyway, the "that" for this month is my ever increasing pile of unread books that I alluded to in passing last month.