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Fifty Shades of Stain
This is my favourite white teeshirt. Or it was. It is, of course, no longer white. I seem incapable of not spilling or splashing military-grade liquids…
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"Ship requests Autonomy Level 1..."
For some reason, that line from Weapons of Choice has stayed with me all these years later. We didn’t get there of course, but I guess we’re on the way…
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Who's up for a Fallout chat?
I finished watching the first season last night, and, oh my word, it was good. There seemed to be a few peeps following it so I thought we might like to…
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Chiseled.
I’m afraid I have reached the woodworking stage of old manhood. It was this thing that did it, or rather the hundred bucks Amazon was asking for it. I…
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Coffee, wine and eggs.
Other than tracking my protein and fibre (and walking steafastly last the donut shoppe) I don’t go in much for diets. But I could get behind this one…
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Neville Chamberlain, hero.
This piece is obviously in answer to some of the recent comparisons of Marjorie Taylor Greene to Neville Chamberlain, a comparison, the writer points…
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And me, prepping for book launches.
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The recline and fall of western civilisation.
I’ve done a fair bit of international travel over the last five years, Covid notwithstanding, and the thing I most appreciated in an airline was a deep…
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Writers as large language meat models.
This piece in The New Yorker on modern reading gave me the rare experience of nodding in recognition as I shook my head in disagreement. Jay Kang, the…
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Watching Fallout.
It's good.
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Three days in the wilderness.
Okay, the suburbs, but still...
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Beachside.
It's probably not the recommended course of action going from a melanoma diagnosis to the beach, but here I am. Jane has a conference at Broadbeach…
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