Richard I

Me, re-reading The Warden

In 2021, a friend wrote saying he was having a medical catastrophe and didn’t know if he'd make it.

He said he'd been taking finasteride, a baldness drug that thousands of men say has caused them devastating side effects.

This is my friend’s story:

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With all the tendency to import American cultural norms, it’s nice to see the Yanks copying us for a change. Barely a week went by in my childhood on the south coast without an insurance related pier fire.

They DID steal our eleven days.

Sensational work from the Environment Agency, who have named their anti-fish theft operation after Psalm 104.

‘So is the great and wide sea also… and there is that Leviathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.’

A still from the upcoming ‘Around the World in 80 Daves’ where Lord Cameron goes round the world and meets 80 people also called Dave in unusual places (BBC2, Spring 2025)

Genuinely thought this was a hieromonk at first.

Wrote a piece about the technical centre of London: the weird world of Charing Cross the-fence.com/the-heart-of-t…

A really excellent digging down of what I was trying to express earlier

Delighted to take part in the “blessing of the beer” for St George’s Day yesterday – a fine old Church of England tradition reinstated by Fergus Butler-Gallie with Rose & Crown. Enville Brewery Dragons Den was the St George beer, plus obligatory ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘He who would valiant be’.

‘How good can his gull impression really be?’ I thought to myself. Then he changed my world entirely

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