Optimism restored.

Result over performance

Spotify Wrapped has identified who i really am. It seems I’m a micro-obsessive of obscure & not so obscure artists appearing in the top 0.1% of their listeners & I gravitate between smooth funky groove soul, pink pilates princess strut pop, & pumpkin spice softcore indie.

I’ve never felt more seen!

If you thought that this and the redirection or cancellation of other EU based or regulated funds wasn’t going to be an immediate and ongoing consequence of Brexit then you misunderstood the question.

All prep takes twice as long as the recipe says. Halve the amount of onion in the recipe. Use half oil, half butter. Also all timings are a guide, it’s usually at least 5 mins difference per recipe stage.

Give it 20%. Some books start slow and build. If you are not hooked at this point then happily shelve it and move on.

Exceptionally good.

The more the left and right polarise the more it becomes a circle where they meet in intolerance of the other and escalating rhetoric.

We are all only a few steps away from being someone’s useful idiot but to make this choice…

Thank you for managing to redefine the Shacket as a clothing term in so many new ways.

You weren’t the only one!

Motion sickness, please.

Hoo-fucking-ray

First attempt was the Silmarillion at age 11, - a book club thing that my mum received - i gave up after around 30 incomprehensible pages. Put me off for over 20 years.