Trashed elbow

Mike is playing video games as per usual. This week's game of choice is Shadow of the Colossus, in which you ponce around a beautifully-rendered pixel landscape, attempting to inhume huge surreal-looking beasts in order to reanimate your dead love. If only life were always so simple.

Jamie is smoking on the balcony. He's been trying to quit for weeks.

I shake my head as I pour myself a third cup of black coffee.

Addiction is a terrible thing.