Si Spurrier writes prose and comics. Main news, work-in-progress and bloggery via. Crime, coffee and careless talk. Jay Berry is a pathetic man. He spends his days in the anodyne cafeterias of London, living vicariously through those around him, letting his pitiful attention skip like a pebble on a pond. But an overheard conversation and a grisly event - death-by-latte - embroils him in a caffeinated conspiracy his dismal imagination can barely comprehend.

Saturday, May 26, 2007. In all likelihood, there is nary a top 100 list, or even a top 10 list, of film critic after film historian after the most casual of film fans that does not include Bicycle Thieves. Of all the elements of Bicycle Thieves that give it that simplicity, perhaps the one that is most deceptively so is the plot.

Thursday, July 21, 2011. I think i will make this my final blog. Not many people reading or responding these days and it takes up time. We have many challenges with his disabilities that place great strains on us, but we are strong together. So I sign off now. Thanks to those who supported us all this time. Our love, Marian, Simon, and Skippy xx. Monday, July 4, 2011. Tuesday, May 31, 2011.