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shoedesigner, itinerant canalboat dweller, Yorkshire rivers and canals.
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There’s a pub named The Winston in my hometown. It had a painting of Winston Churchill as the pub sign. For years my cousin convinced several of our friends that the painting was of her grandpa.

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When my dad (RIP) was in his most excellent nursing home it was my fantasy to be booked in there, in my burned out state, so I could sleep and live on mince, gravy and mash and jelly and ice cream for a few weeks.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Nice of my iPad Pro to develop a wonky charging port just as work gets mad busy. I can’t really spare the time to go to the Apple store or the wait to get the repair done there.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We need to remember what we’re capable of. Every day let your mind be blown by something you do, read, listen to, or create. That is one way we get through this—to remain open to everything that is wondrous in the world. www.marytrump.org/p/what-it-co...

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

Please, please archive your work. Please. I’ve recently been saving lots of my essays as pdfs just so the Internet doesn’t suddenly delete them all (this happened to a whole load of blogs I wrote for The Independent years ago). I don’t want you to wake up and suddenly find your work gone like I did.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Yes! 🙌

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

£20 for a single plastic Pantone chip, more expensive than a rock of crack. 😳 Nearly £9k for a full set. Who even buys and uses these? I remember having to hide my paper guide when working in factories or it’d vanish, forever.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is like when a random handyman invites himself into the life of a lonely grandpa who has dementia, pretending to be his friend, then persuades him to change his will, takes over his bank accounts and robs him of everything.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Senate Finance Committee votes 14-13 to advance the RFK Jr. nomination.

submitted 18 days ago • 706 comments

My mother used to stand in front of the tv and curse Boris Johnson in just this way. We hear you, lady. We feel how you do.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

So many parallels to Brexit, I recall the weariness and frustration from my trade association, reporting in daily, no news, no plan, none of the info we were asking for, as the date approached and then passed.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments