Twilight. The EU Commission can be seen in the background, seated, motionless, at their table in Brussels. In the foreground, Theresa May appears, cheered on by the tribe of the Give-Us-Things. She declares that all is now clear to her, that she knows what she must do ( Read more... )

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I'm exhausted, and it's all the Pope's fault. No, really, it is.

( My evening )

...the staff stop asking you whether you need any help and instead greet you and continue the conversation from last time.

Oops.

Bother, I was going to leave work at a sensible time today. So much for that.

Before I go, a big hurrah for Lush's new bubble bar products. And another hurrah for the fact that, although they are revamping most of their hair products, the Coolaulin conditioner will remain. (Yes, I know I keep my hair short enough that conditioner isn't really ( Read more... )

Going to find those recordings with José Bros was a bad idea. Putting me in front of my CDs always is. I will generally either stand there paralysed by indecision, or else be overcome by a succession of enthusiasms for whatever catches my eye, hop from one thing to the next, and thus ensure that I never get to listen to what I started out to find, ( Read more... )

Couldn't resist.

Feels like it, anyway. I'm sure it's been going on for several days already ( Read more... )

I was reminded this morning of my driving instructor (this is going back 20 years or so - how did that happen?). He was very sweet, but had a fondness for various sayings of his own creation, which he would repeat regularly, several times per lesson. One of them was intended to tell me that I shouldn't drive too slowly, but neither should I drive ( Read more... )

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