Monthly Archives: December 2009

New flat

By Matt Hill | Published: December 21, 2009
I’ve moved in with a girl whose legs I fancied in school. It’s a kind of deferred success. Back then, 13 years old and sprouting limbs, I asked her out. She wouldn’t mind me saying her hair was kind of weird. It went all up and out — a hair-sprayed mushroom cloud – but she had [...]
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Somewhere-in-Furness

By Matt Hill | Published: December 2, 2009
We overtake the ghost of winter floods on the motorway North – a lorry with Cockermouth written all over its flanks. Past Lancaster, and the digital boards start shouting about closed bridges. Later, while the night tips fully into black, we see a couple of dented road signs. And that’s all. We wind up staying [...]
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