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Oo er time has rather crept up on me again, alas. Featureless lockdown days meander past like lazy insomniac sheep-counting sheep, dozens have ambled hypnotically over the fence before you notice. Although I should add for posterity, and jo&stv, who apparently sit in New Zealand and worry that they have relocated my entire social life to another ( Read more... )

Yesterday I realised that (a) as a result of random mention in a book I was reading, I was craving chocolate mousse, (b) I happened to have all the ingredients for same in the house, and (c) there was no real reason why I shouldn't indulge the yen. So I did. I am having chocolate mousse for breakfast, because it's lockdown in a global pandemic and ( Read more... )

oh, dear, apparently I haven't posted in a month? good heavens. I attribute that variously to (a) still being bloody exhausted from the bloody start to the year, (b) still being bloody exhausted by relentless student enquiries, particularly the noxious upsurge towards the end of term, (c) being overloaded with human interaction by (b), (d) being ( Read more... )