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  • Pigeonholes

    For the sake of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, I submitted myself to a course on project management a fortnight ago. It was good and bad. There were some...

  • anti-fix

    Yesterday I finally made my daughter Tanglewest’s birthday cake, nearly a week after it should have been delivered. The fact that no one seems to have been unduly upset by...

  • Stores and shops

    As a Californian coming to live and study in Oxford some years ago, I had to learn a new language. Richard Gombrich pointed out that I was working at learning...

  • Reading with Tanglewest

    Odd to think how old patterns repeat. I’m sitting in the front room with Tanglewest who couldn’t sleep; she’s reading a Gerald Durrell book. Bhavana and I have agreed to...

  • When the dog licks your feet…

    Woke up this morning with the dog licking my feet. Went back to sleep. Bad move. Came downstairs and found generous helpings of dog mess — ‘I tried to wake...