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To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations.

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The fascinating Norfolk pingo ponds - remnants of the Ice Age.

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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Do join us at St John's Waterloo this Friday with @colla-voce.bsky.social for a glorious programme! Includes Alec Roth, Cecilia McDowall, Byrd, JS Bach, Ben Parry, Elgar, Vasks and the London premiere of @bernardhughes.bsky.social's ‘Hear my heart sing’. Info/tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

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📢Earlybird ticket discount ends midnight Sunday! Do join us with @colla-voce.bsky.social at @stjohnswaterloo.bsky.social Friday 4 April, 7.30pm. Includes music by Alec Roth, @bernardhughes.bsky.social, Cecilia McDowall, Byrd, JS Bach, Ben Parry, Vasks and 🍷. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

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Thank you so much for marking my Dad’s birthday: born 98 years ago today! Dad died in 2019. His beloved wife Mary, my mum is still with us at 94 years old.

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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I have three reviews to go for the Obs but today, after 180 of them, is my last column for OFM. So I thought I’d summarise my searing advice from the last 15 years: the wisdom, the provocations and the occasional stupidities. Enjoy. Or grind your teeth. Your call www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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Exhausted after playing footsie with a spider.

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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

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A well-deserved happy Christmas to whoever did the lawyering on this piece. Awesome work. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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Can't help feeling these are a metaphor for something.

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Today is Fight Procrastination Day apparently so I thought I’d write a poem in celebration of that. Not quite managed to finish it but I’ll sort out the title tomorrow.

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