January 2025
I read my monlogue, Pillow Talk, at Talking Tales #36 at The Robin Hood, St Michael's Hill, Bristol, on 30th January.
PILLOW TALK
Forging new friendships in your later years is difficult, particularly perhaps for men. How much of your past life do you need or wish to share? How much of it will interest anyone else?
A generalisation, of course, but it’s not very far from the truth: women share feelings; men share facts.
“Anti-clockwise,” Gordon tells me. “Widdershins. From the German ‘widersinnig’. Taking a course that’s opposite to the motion of the sun. In England it’s considered unlucky to walk widdershins round a church but, in the Buddhist tradition, travelling clockwise benefits everyone, while travelling anticlockwise benefits the individual.”