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I am 72 hours from Denver and I have just come down with a stinking cold and I am stuffy and miserable and generally afflicted with manflu. A malison upon the common cold!
Just doing my duty….

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Spotted this as I planned my escape route from Denver into the Rockies for next week….

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I can’t quite believe I have allowed things to progress this far without sharing with you the joy of Delia’s Toasties, mentioning it only in passing in an earlier post. Let me therefore correct that error…
For those of you who enjoyed “Tuna and Pasta Bake, Oh My!”, here’s the original from which I shamelessly lifted [...]

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If I ever grow significant facial hair again, send me this link.

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Sat quietly here in Darklooks Mansions, I have been completely unable to get out of my head the snippet of doggerel Ethel Meaker came out with to explain Nadia Popov’s dangerous hayfever to, I think, some native American ghosts who, just to really lay the cultural understanding on thick, could only speak in Longfellowesque trochaic [...]

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… and I’m not going to tell you, yet, until references and everything of that ilk is complete. But watch this space.

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(”Mystifying” by the way used as an adjective.)

To pack, simply sort through your belongings and throw 50% of them out, until you have twice what you started with
Whilst packing, you will suddenly remember your favourite shirt/blouse/t-shirt and, despite not having thrown a single piece of clothing out for the last 20 years, will be utterly [...]

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Since I am now doing absolutely everything at once, and with rather more success than in earlier, more laid-back, times… anyone know how this works? I know that tasks expand to fill the available time, that’s fine: what I’m interested is the corollary, in which efficiency seems to increase exponentially to a (linear) increase in [...]

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Seen on a giant ad hoarding on my way home today: “Imagine… expressing your emotions with optical zoom”
I can’t even begin to understand how I have successfully expressed my emotions all these years without an optical zoom (save the built in one, where you move the lens assembly and imaging surfaces closer to the object [...]

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The link speaks for itself

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