Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 06, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba J Priestley i published the Good companions 50 years ago and established himself As a witty social now that in old in More Mellow he told Russell Miller at his strata Odonavon i am probably also Hall Dotty have my own bedroom be cause i dont always sleep Well and i like to get up and wander around looking at books if i cant i read anything from detective stories to but it is usually Light stuff because if it starts me thinking it is not serving its there Are thousands of books All Over the sometimes i read my my wife says she can always Tell if pm Reading one of my own books because i have a cat full of Cream i Wake around 8 Oclock and some often my brings me up a cup of my letters and the when i have looked through them i put on a dressing gown and go Down to usually poached egg with Toast arid we have a very Good who does All the by the time breakfast is finished my Secretary has arrived and i go through the correspondence to get it of the most of the let ters Are requests for me to do some of them pretty letters of i dont bother to answer silly letters or those from people who Only want my but i reply to All the Wale my Secretary is getting on with the correspondence i go up to shave and i am a great goer to the Loo because i have some thing called a spasmodic Colon and have to go half a dozen times instead of just but it does not bother me too now i am in my mid80s i am not doing any serious am too damned i still write the Odd Intro but not much i think my last the image was my so i dont see myself when i was working i never waited for inspiration i think professional should get on with and i Only worked in the mornings or in the Early never in the it is a habit i picked up at i dont actually think one is Ever at ones Best in the if do not have anything to i spend the morning looking through the newspapers or just pottering i spend a lot of time but i am never bored peo ple bore me More than being alone bores we usually have lunch something pretty simple like cold meat and and i might have a Gin and Dubonnet after if it is i go out for a shortish often six or seven times round the i am not really interested in although i Feell ought to have i suppose i ram really rather an indolent i like to watch the Early news on television and will Nave another Gin and which is at about depending on what we Are eating we wine but my wife looks after All i am not fussy about there Are very few things i wont most evenings i will watch a bit of i enjoy a wide Range of pro providing they Are i dont despise television i am very glad we have got we dont go out a great Deal if we do go out i would rather see a film than a film is not very Good i can there in a comfortable chair smoking at the screen and thinking about something if a play is not very Good i just sit there crossing and unc Rossing my legs and going out of my mind be cause i cant i dont smoke in i smoke All the time and have since if it has shortened my life i have not really noticed but i never apart from the great plea sure in my life is i have a very Good gramophone and lots of although i use it less now than i used i get tired of it More my Spe Cial favorite is Mozart thirty years ago i would have said but i think one tends As one gets older to like Mozart it is about by the time i go to and then i always i keep a pile of books by my bed and read for anything from half an hour to two you i always feel i am quite different from the Way people imag Ine me to my Public image seems to be rather Touchy and which i am i would admit to being impatient on occasions in the but then for years my life was like a three ring circus and i didst like my time to be i am really very certainly now that i i am much More to probably also half i am like an overripe fruit next week Michael Snow 7 ;