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I Used to live in a flat which had no mirror. (iirls particularly thought this odd. ‘I low do you comb your hair'." asked one. When I said I didn't have a comb either she looked at inc as ifshe‘d just realised I was wearing a toupee and said there was something she had urgently to collect from the laundrette. I thought of this
earlier this morning while I was
shaving which I still do by feel even though the present dernesne is well-equipped mirror-wise. It‘s like
running your hand up laddered
stockings. Later. and with about as much enthusiasm as the English bowlers going out to face the West Indies at Trent Bridge. I confronted rue. tete a tete. man to mirror. I
couldn't have looked more
melancholy if I'd been told (‘ecil Parkinson was coming to dinner. Does this face reflect the true you'.’l asked. I could have had a more meaningful conversation with a (‘ashline machine. I stared myself out. This wasn’t the me that had the flat without the mirror. That me was left behind with the beer-stained carpet and the peeling wallpaper when I moved out and left the place to the brother who needed it more than I did. That me had something this me in the mirror didn't have.
ALAN TAYLOR’S
EAST LIFE
What it was I‘m not quite sure but I‘d like to put my hands on it now.
What triggers off a black mood like this‘.’ I wish I knew. If you say it‘s a characteristic trait of the Scots I‘ll despatch the Doric Kneecappcrs pronto. It‘s all the more puzzling because these past few days have been. as Maya would have it. the nit‘s tits. First Callum Taylor Buchan made his debut at Elsie's. an idyllic place to come into the world. what with the park. the trees and the nurses who look as if they're enjoying themselves. But soon only BLJPA babes will be born there. It‘s a crying shame. When I arrived (‘allum was crying his three days eyes out. not from shame but from sh . . . you know what. and had
already been rechristened Bucket by his youngest cousin. The scatological influence of Roald Dahl is insidious. He looked — as all newly borns do — like Winston Churchill though. when asked which side of the family I thought he took after. I had to confess he bore more than a passing resemblance to his maternal grandfather. as seen late on a Saturday night. ‘He doesn‘t mean that as a compliment‘. said the man himselfwho can now spend all day and every day hanging around maternity wards. imbibing Lucozade and popping purple grapes.
It‘s not where I would choose to spend my time. But I must confess to chalking up a few hours at the birth ofthe first enfant terrible where I
witnessed scenes no man ought. The indignities women have to suffer to keep the race ticking over! At least when the terrible's sister was on simmer I was at home in bed. The phone rang at unearthly hour. ‘Get here when you can'. said an Irish nurse. exuding dilatoriness. I took her at her word. stopping to stock up the fridge on my way to the hospital. As I ambled along the corridor to the labour room I heard the tortured cry. repeated not infrequently since: ‘Where is he? Where is he'." Not much later I was raking in another fiver a week in Family Allowance.
From now on I may I have to invest it in tickets for the opera. I am smitten. I went to see La Boheme at the Playhouse and it was ‘chust sublime‘. as Para Handy used to say. Poor Mimi. But surely no one in the tropically heated Playhouse believed her tiny hand was frozen. Nor was it so tiny. This Mimi was a big girl with mitts to match. Nevertheless. by the time the consumption got her the stalls were awash with tears and ifl wasn’t so macho I would have been bowling with rest of them. It was very sad. So sad that I may now be suffering from delayed shock. I better have a look in the mirror and check it out.
66The List 8— ll July 1988