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Unsubscribe before it's too late Hello hello 5 things I'm thinking a lot at the moment about family, friends and colleagues. About the joy of having them and...
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Unsubscribe you fools Hello hello Lots of books in this one. Think of it as a Summer Reading Special. 5 things Watching Wimbledon reminded me of this bit...
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UNSUBSCRIBE because this one meanders hello, June. Jubilee. Weather/times like this always make me think of these lines from Forty Years On: MOGGIE: Then in...
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hello hello, 5 Things I have a minor hobby replying to climate skeptics in the letters page of our local paper. I'm trying to work out the best language to...
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hello again, I didn't write last month because Putin had just invaded Ukraine and paying attention to this sort of stuff seemed wrong. A month later, and...
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hello, I have a big pile of unread New Yorkers above my desk. I like to go out first thing in the morning for coffee and to read one. But my eyesight can...
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Hello It’s 2022. Every year now sounds like a futurist from the 80s trying to pick a year that’s not 2000 or 2050. I read a lot about archetypal plots when I...
Because the soup is getting cold
hello, It just occurred to me. This is supposed to happen the first Sunday of the month isn’t it? Ah well. Sorry. World turned upside down. The times, they...
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hello, Sorry about missing you all last month. Interesting times! With some ado, here are 5 things: I received more than one piece of enthusiastic feedback...
Dogs are barking but the train keeps moving
hello, Dogs are barking etc is one of those phrases that rattles around my head. It appears to have Arab origins (except as ‘..the caravan moves on’) but has...
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5 things: Listen to this fantastic, tiny! radio feature about “Parson’s Pleasure, a male-only nude bathing place on the outskirts of Oxford.” Sexuality,...
Far from the Google Cloud
hello, I’m writing this on the first day of holiday. I’m obviously not really that far from the Google Cloud I just thought it was a good line. If anything...
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hello, I was tempted to send this late, just so I could invoke this: Katie Henry @KT_NREI have never in my life identified more with a piece of writing than...
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hello, A paper in Nature (‘People systematically overlook subtractive changes’) reports on experiments which show how people find it more obvious to solve...
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hello, I am aware that Substack has become problematic. The technical team is looking into migration options. 5 things: The best quiz question I’ve heard in...
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hello, Unsubscribe. You don't have time for this. 5 Things: Carol Kay is a legendary bassist. She played on every good record. This tiny moment of instagram...
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The shortest month. I’ll keep this brief. Postlight shared Pleasant Internet Things. What a good idea. Not least because happiness is contagious. Here are...
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Happy New Year everyone, here we go again. 5 things: If you have a resolution that involves less doomscrolling can I recommend Favejet? It’s the best way to...
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