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I have been paying a great deal of attention to my body this morning. What an awfully difficult, lumpy thing it is. First I walked the dog, wearing within my wellies one of the new pairs of socks I was given for my birthday (yes, sad, isn’t it? I remember what I used to be […]

I have been living in the past for a week, and have been happier there. Not that life was better. They had rickets and everything. But things were simpler. Today, inexplicably, Internet Explorer stopped working on this laptop. It froze me time and again. I have no more idea why, or what to do about […]

What a crappy week that was. As if we can afford to lose decent people who believe that if we can afford to send soldiers to foreign lands with expensive weapons, we can afford to feed our hungry children. And I had a water leak to fix. And I had to phone the council. As […]

We have discussed the state of our roads before, and we have discussed the state of public service in this country. One is chronically underfunded and understaffed and things are getting worse and worse every single day. So is the other. Today, with no prior warning whatsoever, Cornwall Council sent workmen down the lane past […]

Is Bono some kind of quantum answer to life, the universe and anything, an answer that adds up to more than 42? Is Bono everywhere? I was enjoying BBC4’s documentary on the very, very great BB King last week and suddenly, there he was. Bono. Pontificating. On all the websites this morning there are pictures […]