So 4 in 5 prefer democracy. Seems okay to me.

We watched ‘Black Doves’ on Netflix and it was excellent: drama, humour, a decent mystery and excellent acting. Hoping there’ll be a second series.

Also, and as always, I’ve dipped back into my favourite episodes of DARK, also on Netflix. Still my favourite show of all time and the best thing I’ve seen on TV in the last 50 years.

There is that too, of course!

It certainly was over the past 14 years, yes.

Won’t somebody think of all the wealthy landowners, having to put up with being treated like ordinary people?

Shoplifting from small ‘Mom and Pop’ stores harms them and I damn well would report it to the owner. Shoplifting from a large chain store bothers me not a whit.

Lots of side trips available to places such as Upper and Lower Dicker (East Sussex), Scratchy Bottom (Dorset) and Minge Lane (Worcestershire).

The artist was French and this was painted in 1921. Perhaps the wordplay is suggesting the woman is also a bird: beautiful and colourful, like the birds around her.

Taken over Leominster.

In the UK, for a pack-a-day smoker, that’s more like $140 a week.

We were lucky to visit this in 2022. Gorgeous country, Canada.

The wake will be held at the local Chinese restaurant. No police allowed.

I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

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The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I’ve ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

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I fell in love with this song after hearing it on S1E3 of Netflix’s ‘DARK’. The show’s soundtrack is absolutely brilliant.

Good god! How many potatoes can one person eat?

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

I’ve always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It’s yet to happen.