'...how much one forgot, but then lived with anyway, like phantom limbs.' God Elizabeth Strout just messes me up (and obviously I love it). Just finished this one. Might need a quick breather before I go in again for the next.

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Got in a flow today and then half a dozen people interrupted it. Why do I always feel like the universe is thwarting me? (In other words, how dare my day job interfere?)

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imagine being the one person in the world who pays a thousand pounds to meet Amol Rajan, and taking him back to your house that is covered in Joe Orton-style collages of Amol Rajan and showing him the tattoo of his face on your upper thigh and how unfair it will be when you also go to prison

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I have a weird fondness for a British suburb but crucially because if you live, as I did, in the middle of nowhere in the countryside until you are 16 and then move to the suburbs they feel magically connected and big. (This may also only have applied c. 2002.) They are neither of those things.

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So the Covid enquiry has just announced that the protective care ring the Tories said they put up around care homes didn't exist [LBC News] When are people going to prison for all this?

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