This time of year I regularly think of that TVGoHome listing for a programme that was just Simon Callow against a black background and you put your face close to the TV so Callow could pull scared faces and say "A ghost!" to your reflection.

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So far today I have had breakfast and rescued an orange cat called Max down from a tree where he was stuck. How is your Saturday morning going?

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Without writers, publishers have no business model - whatever the C-suite might be telling themselves People who buy books don't actually want to read slop. And nobody, reader or not, wants to *pay* for slop

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This week's "what can I make from these offcuts" soup is mostly beetroot peel and broccoli and mushroom stalks. Lots of cumin and chilli and wishing I'd got it together to find some horseradish.

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“One of the most persistent misconceptions about Black surnames in America is that formerly enslaved people universally adopted the surnames of the people who had enslaved them. The reality was much more complicated.”

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