December 2002
A little bit late this month, because there is so MUCH TO DO. Why does everyone want everything before Christmas? The work is non-stop, and on top of that I'm expected to go shopping.
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November 2002
Last time I wrote I was on my way to New York for the opening of Deborah Warner's MEDEA, now touring the USA, and you still have a chance to catch it in Washington, between the 4 and 7th of November, and Berkeley, California, between the 10 and the 25th. It really is a MUST SEE.
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October 2002
By the time you read this, I will be in New York.
I'm going out there privately to see my agent and publishers, and to say hello to a lot of people I know and miss.
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September 2002
None of us will forget where we were on September 11 2001.
I was in a hut in the Shropshire forest, without running water or electricity, cooking and keeping warm by a wood-burning stove. Only when I switched the car radio on to come home, did I hear what had happened.
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August 2002
Some things are stranger than others. What is the spirit of a place and how does it change?
I am writing this is my hovel, which I didn't sell when I sold the main house. The hovel is wonderful and looks back over fields that used to be mine. I thought this might bother me, but it doesn't.
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July 2002
Sorry to be a little late with the column this month - I moved house on July 1st, and I spent the weekend fitting a cat-flap and rigging up shanty towns for the animals, all of whom are furious. They don't believe there is any other world than the world they have left behind - and in that they are not so different from the rest of us.
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June 2002
June - and the whole of London has been cordoned off so that the Queen can get about without being stuck in traffic. This is what it means to have a modern-day Jubilee.
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May 2002
First Ruth Rendell, then Martin Amis, and now me. What is it with writer's and dental work? I decided that at the ripe old age of 42, it was time to get a new crown fitted and finally extract a baby tooth that has been sitting in there since I was, well, a baby. The tooth is now in an envelope waiting for the Tooth Fairy to do something with it.
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April 2002
I love spring. Here in Britain the clocks have gone forward, making it possible for us all to enjoy a drink outside in the light, instead of pathetically huddled by the coalhole, pretending it isn't cold and it isn't dark.
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March 2002
February has been a busy month. The spring bulbs - snow drops and aconites have been doing their stuff, and I have been doing mine. Thank god it's March...
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February 2002
Well, we have all paid our tax, paid off our accountants, and spent sleepless nights wondering why there is so much red tape in the world. How much of our time and money do we spend keeping officials quiet? How has the world ended up this way? Nobody cares if you paint a picture or write a book - but fail to file your tax return and you're dead
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January 2002
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'm sitting in my house in London right on the edge of the financial district. On New Year' s Day, I was the only person here. The delis and restaurants around me that service the city workers were all closed. There were no cars and no sounds.
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