Sporting Catastrophe

Added on 09 February 2009

Sporting heartache for Two of Two at the weekend. He and his team were playing in the final of some Warsaw indoor football competition. A twenty minute game, which they'd had four weeks to prepare for as the semi-final was back in January. As ever the nuns were in attendance, and worryingly for our ...

The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt

Added on 06 February 2009

The Final Cut is done for the moment, and safely in the hands of that editorial velociraptor, TPCKAM. Have moved on to editing The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, with the intention of re-releasing it at some point this year as The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt, to tie in with the already re-released f...

Spa Baths, Naked Women, Massages & Caves

Added on 05 February 2009

Douglas Lindsay has moved on to working on editing The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, for re-issue later this year as The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt (Book 2). The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 5th March 2005: Last week we pitched up at a waterside hotel at Lake Bled, Slove...

Horse Feathers

Added on 04 February 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently working on this year's comedy crime blockbusting sensation, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 9th June 2004: We were sitting in our apartment in Dakar, Senegal one night, in those simple days before children, when all one had to t...

The Root Of All Evil

Added on 03 February 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently working on this year's comedy crime blockbusting sensation, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 28th November 2003: The words "There's no need to be afraid" have their place. That place would be, say, when your child is wo...