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A lot of notwithstanding going on here (opens the original)
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Last Wednesday evening’s helter-skelter dash into London (no, everyone who’s moved from Pakistan to ‘Lun-dun’ does not actually live in London) was well worth the effort. I came home feeling energized and hopeful and optimistic. Not least for being coronated, with my esteemed other, as a cool parent. Always a rush ;-)I’m pretty sure we were the only Gen Xers in a coffee-shop full of millennials and GenZs attending ’s chat with . Not a boomer in sight either and that was probably just as well. Th
Let's pretend it's not the end of the world (opens the original)
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In the inimitable though now that anything and everything can be faked, not that inimitable, voice of Miley Cyrus, let us indeed pretend. Every one else is doing it, why shouldn’t we? One minute we’re scrolling through photos and videos of the devastation in Europe, a hellscape of hundreds of fires scorching the very life out of earth and the next we’re jumping out of our skins, dropping our phones in fright – or in my case launching a frantic search – as they erupt in the most <a href="https://
Of faith and other matters (opens the original)
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It was ten years ago yesterday ~ or maybe the day before by the time you read this ~ to the morning we all sat around my father’s hospital bed, the one they’d brought in to the house and settled him in facing the small window that looked out onto the garden and onto the hummingbird’s favourite humming spot. But before I remembered what day it was, I came across a post that reminded me of his words ~ for a man of very few he left with us a remarkable extravagance of memorable ones. It was an inst
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