tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post5038466362115402197..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Bloody CartoonsKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-54986265767564489312021-07-28T07:19:35.090+01:002021-07-28T07:19:35.090+01:00I also lived in a B&B for a while. This was in...I also lived in a B&B for a while. This was in Aberdeen and I was a lot older than eighteen but still retained, as I continue to, some of my youthful naiveté. I don’t talk about that time. It was during the lowest time in my life and, well, I just don’t talk about it. The room I had, at the start at least, I shared with another guy and there was a third who had to cross our room to get to his glorified cupboard. It was an odd setup but, as always, the poet in me hoped to find inspiration in the diverse mix we shared the place with. He never did. In fact I only wrote <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2010/04/lonely-city.html" rel="nofollow">one poem</a> the whole six months I was there and I've never drawn on any of my experiences from that time since which, personally, I find a bit odd, out of character, but I’ve never got my head around how this whole inspiration thing is supposed to work.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com