Snerk!

Asked, recently (like, eight hours ago) to give a "description" of myself to accompany a forthcoming (like, eight hours hence) magazine article, I found myself churning out the weary "ASH Smyth is a freelance writer and journalist" line.

I felt a bit stupid when I saw that at least two other contributors to the same edition have used exactly the same formulation.

Still, at least none of us referred to himself as "a writer and novelist". Nice one, Julian Gough.