Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

‘I'm not a group person; I don't like groups of gays, I don't like groups of straights.’ — David Bowie

Straw Dogs

SATURDAY

I feel down. I’m alone in Maugherow, having arrived with a view to putting away the turf that still loiters in plastic bags in the various driveways — well north of 200 bags of solid, heavy stuff. But the weather is atrocious — down wet all night and today promised as bad. The roof will be on the new shed by tonight, so I’m hoping that…