A Yorkshire on which it never rains. A Women’s Institute peopled by the likes of Julie Waters, Helen Mirren and Celia Imrie. Men who are gruff and taciturn but not grumpy. A story about pluck in the face of adversity and the value of true friendship. What’s not to like about Calendar Girls?

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.8 This week: 88.8

Tuesday 1 May: Dieters of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your weight.

My thanks to The Online Photographer for first posting this (2022-04-30: though I’m blowed if I can find the original link).

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.8
Tuesday 24 April: skipped a week, numerically, because although I did weigh myself I didn’t want to crash in on the Moroccan narrative. Still hovering around the same old figures, which is not surprising as I have been eating enough. No sense of depriva...

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We’ve been reading bits of Elias Canetti's Voices of Marrakech. In one of them he talks about the importance of a room of one’s own to the full enjoyment of the city around. How right, even if the room is one’s own only for the night. So different today, our last night, from our first night. Very...

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