Not entirely unexpected, I don’t suppose, although our hosts were remarkably reluctant to confirm it. Mine was delicious, stuffed with some sort of plum or prune. And there was good rice too, mixed with steamed or boiled giant corn kernels. All in all considerably more exciting than the chifa I've...

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To Lima, via Amsterdam. A long, but deeply uneventful flight, which is as it should be. Just two complaints. First, my super-duper reclining seat had a broken footrest, which made it pretty uncomfortable when fully reclined. And second, with a rinky-dink little personal screen one has no way of know...

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I've realized of late that posting to my own blog is probably one of the most elastic tasks I have. If there's time, I do it. If there isn't, I don't. But I do at least fret about not posting. Sometimes.

One problem is that the primary cause of my current lack of both time and motivation is out of bounds for moaning. I have promised the powers that be that I won't discuss my work on my blog, it being far easier to self-censor than to explain. So I won't even indulge in a little Roman a clef and disguise names to protect the guilty. Let's just say that life is not entirely smooth at present.

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FTrain on Googlefrenzy. Well, I laughed.

Michael Moore at the Republican Convention.

A fool and their money ... but who am I to judge. Actually, I had to look hard to find something pointless. The rest of the site looks good.¹

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This morning I bought some hedge clippers and set to cleaning up the rather sad plants that constitute my “hedge”. They are privets in large concrete troughs and they are far too sparse to be called a hedge. But “line of privets” doesn’t sound quite right. The clipping itself went well, with three b...

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