The Scribble Pad: September 2006

About Me

Location: Trinidad & Tobago

I write literary novels under my real name, Roslyn Carrington, and wayyy too hot Arabesque romance novels under the pen name Simona Taylor. I live in Trinidad with my partner, Rawle, and our toddlers, Riley and Megan. Ah, the pleasures and pressures of being parents to those two! There’s also my full-time Public Relations job, the aquarium full of albino sharks, the dog, the garden, the obsession with cooking (the more fattening the dish, the better), the addiction to the comic art by the likes of Keith Knight and Aaron McGruder, and the chocolate compulsion. I fill whatever time I have left dreaming about romance and writing.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Stinking copper bandits!

Been away from my blog for a whole month. NOT a good thing. Want to know why I've been away from my blog a whole month? because of those lousy stinking copper bandits, that's why! These assholes have been climbing up the telephones in the middle of the night to steal telephone wire to sell for scrap. It's pure copper, you know. They mosey in at about 1 a.m. when decent folk are asleep (or, at least, gettin' busy) and chop up whole chunks of the stuff. And the telephone company takes 5 whole days each time to fix it, and my entire neighbourhood is without phones or internet access the whole time.

What pisses me off is the utter callousness of it. These men steal corporate property without care for the 200 houses on our street, just because they can make a buck off of it. And it's a pretty penny, I'm told. Utterly anti-social, utterly selfish. So much for the future of our youth.