This botanical research for #Cricket🏏 willow trees is really fascinating. Turns out that I was correct in my initial thought that if it grew in England that it likely grows in the States as well. Apparently the Salix alba caerulea aka Cricket Bat Willow grows in New England.

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Canadians are boycotting American goods and buying Canadian. Like this potato.

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First training walk for my Himalayas trek done. Walked a couple of hours, ate two scones, walked another hour and half, ate a doughnut. So long as there are bakeries at 3000m altitude should be good

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My wife’s book, THIS IMMACULATE BODY, is out in paperback in the UK next week! It‘s about a woman who becomes obsessed with the man whose flat she cleans. It’s funny, literary and has a disturbing, intoxicating narrative voice. It’s available in the US as CREEP www.waterstones.com/book/this-im...

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There are 3 25-year-olds on my train talking about how much they disliked the last season of Stranger Things and they can only articulate this in terms of continuity and “plot armour”. Might have to tick them off

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