28
Dec
the five podcasts I actually listen to
If you had told me back in 2007, when approximately 30 per cent of all my waking hours were spent
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28
Dec
when will we cry in public again?
I haven’t been on a train since early March, so naturally I’ve been daydreaming about public transport a
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28
Dec
I feel a warm little glow of satisfaction
I read that piece in the Observer last weekend about how fear of a miserable, long, dark winter is mostly
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28
Dec
because of all the words I deleted
This is how many words I wrote last week:
During the working week 24 — 28 August, I wrote 13,671
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28
Dec
how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?
I didn’t write to you last Friday as I had planned. I was busy reenacting this scene:
I had
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28
Dec
rummaging through all the paper
I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for
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28
Dec
a list of small, inconsequential pleasures
For no particular reason, yesterday I was thinking about the really quite terrible 2007 film Evan Almighty. You don’t
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28
Dec
a brain fizzing combination of accomplishment and virtue
In the twelve days between 26 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, I went to the tip four times. The
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28
Dec
a thimbleful of cherry brandy for three shillings
I was recording a podcast interview for a corporate client a while ago — we all have to pay the bills,
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Oct
this will take a minute
I was browsing the selection of books in my local charity shop recently when I encountered something wonderful: a microwave
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