Hobo's advent calendar 2008
December 8
The shop was chilly and I moved slowly between the shelves. Ordinarily I was a considerable consumer of 15 watt light-bulbs and crab sold by the kilo. But now I was out shopping for something for dinner. I was dead hungry and wanted pasta with tomato sauce quicker than you could say Jack Robinson. As soon as I'd eaten, I'd get on with crafting literature again.
"The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow" (p.31)
