You should never admit to being retired. It’s the quickest way to end conversation and watch your interlocutor search the room for someone more interesting. At one stage I thought of describing myself as a professional athlete as I run a couple of marathons every year – and I do come in the top three […]
Several villagers got Covid recently, none badly. Vaccination works. In conversation, everyone harks back to 2020 and their faded memories of insisting we followed the rules. My recollection is that we stretched them – a village of elderly anarchists. I loved the innovation. The Village Inn closed which meant the end of morning papers. A
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We decided we’d too many books and made a mountain. But what to lose? I’ve a decent collection of poetry books that I visit regularly and use pieces of paper to bookmark poems. The shelves are a rainbow of prayer flags. Those books were going nowhere. It was the same with collections – Steinbeck, Hemingway,
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