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We’re Off!

Writing on my phone, in an airport. It's been a long time! We last flew in February, March of 2020. We were in Rome, to watch rugby, and had organised lunch with a business acquaintance of mine from Milan. As we enjoyed some wonderful artichoke dishes in the
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Living the Dream 108: Travel anxiety

Subject to any last minute mishaps, we’ve decided that we’re going to travel. Ominously, Mrs L’s back is playing up again. The trouble manifests itself as a need to stop every 20 yards, hunched over, to rest and stretch, which slows things down a mite. This end
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Living the Dream 107. A new season

Early last week, it dropped to -3 degrees centigrade (26.6 Fahrenheit) in our village. On Saturday, it hit 29 (84.2) on the golf course. It’s as though someone flicks a switch. Instant summer.
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Russia

This binary, polemic dynamic that the world has adopted is nonsense. The demonisation of the opposite side IS the problem, not a reaction to the problem. Take US politics, UK politics, the French election, Covid-19, any number of things, hell, Smith v Rock. Everything is so absolute.
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Distinction

As I write this, I’m a few days away from my first big homework deadline. The first module in my MBA is Organisational Behaviour, and the entire grade is based on one paper, of four thousand, five hundred words. Word-counts don’t scare me. I like writing. However, I’
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Little Slips

Effortless organisation. That’s what I want. A system that’s instinctive, forgiving and easy on the eye. That’s not too much to ask for, is it? No? Well, while we’re here, I’d also like extendibility and expandability. A system that can grow with my needs.
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Sean II. 40

“No offence Sean - but that’s not exactly an A1 source of intelligence.” Sean resisted the urge to punch the supercilious grin off the other man’s face. “Well, as things stand, she believes she knows what happened, while the big-shot-MI6-guy’s just shrugs his shoulders and looks clueless.”
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A Failure of Logic

The single biggest risk of escalation is Putin. While he remains in power, there is a huge risk of escalation, because he will keep launching attacks, knowing that the West’s policy is appeasement, pure and simple.
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