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In brief 🩲 * Journal: The barest exertion possible * Practical: Testudo that calendar * Read: Be found for weird and wonderful things * Quote: The twitch-tickling problem of getting squiff-squiddled From the journal 📖 Recently, while swimming lengths, I couldn’t help but notice the guy in the shallow lane next to me. Now, I’

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Now, don’t take this the wrong way, but... * Practical: A lifetime is made up of these blips strung together * Art: A grizzly bunny and Sir Quentin Saxby Blake From the journal 📖 My daughter Ida came into my office with her friend Enid the other day. Ida

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The elusive Mr Allardice * Practical: What are Mondays even for? * Art: The cutesy pictographs we can’t do without From the journal 📖 I used to be a high school English teacher, and from time to time I still run into former students. Recently at a housewarming for

In brief 🩲 * Journal: A face like Freddy Krueger * Practical: Just the One Big Thing, and maybe a few lesser things * Art: Knowledge turned upside-down, over time * Listen: One solution to the podcast paradox From the journal 📖 From time to time I get a Google Photos reminder of the time I

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Fashionably early to see Dr B² * Practical: There is no spoon * Read: A brand-new framing, maximum clarity * Comment: The power is yours From the journal 📖 Recently I turned up to my Specsavers eye appointment at 10:31. The receptionist, teetering on the highest of heels, walked over

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Cutesy anachronisms are the best kind * Practical: Beware the attention quotient, and expectations of same-day delivery * Art: A less-psycho Blake or a normcore Steadman? From the journal 📖 It only takes a single word to transform one of my daughter Ida’s sentences into a cutesy anachronism, or