Are you OK, Computer?
“Dear Diary”, 19th June 2026
“Remember what I’m doing today, matey?”
“Nope”
“I’m on the mental health interview panel at the fancy school”
“With a microphone?”
“Yes, a microphone. Why?”
“Oh dear”
“Pardon”
“Oh dear”
Radiohead t-shirt on and “OK, Computer” entertaining me on the car stereo, I was more than a little nervous this morning as I haven’t had the dubious pleasure of any public speaking since my Mum’s funeral (we gave her a jolly Luciano Pavarotti inspired send off) or back in the day when my soul was sucked through my eyeballs as I tried to sell a soulless product in our soulless world to other automatons who, like me, were hoping and praying to be anywhere else but here, sold a product by a man resembling he’d lost his dog, and was on the very brink of crying.
So my first gag didn’t land, but I really hope my story did, a silly story of love and friendship, bacon and sausages, and hugs and jokes in a forest beside a river. Before reading my story I asked the sixth-formers in our audience who liked or played football or cricket and, crucially, anyone dream of writing a book?
His name was Harrison.
Follow your dream kid.
“Dear Diary” is a new concept I’m running with for the new year. Short, punchy, irreverent, spoiler free, telling you everything and nothing about that day’s particular journal entry. Here’s today’s entry. Do check back in tomorrow. After you’ve tempted yourself with one of these beauties I self-published either side of Christmas 2025:
"Alone with Everybody" - Link to Amazon
Love this Stephen Blackford you are an amazing soul 🫵😎🩵