Things on which I have no opinion (vol 2): -scones (jam first/cream first) -Taylor Swift -hot weather -cold weather

Don't Worry About the Government (2005 Remaster) youtu.be/o-e3waxCNNs?si… via YouTube

Things on which I have no opinion (vol 3): -Vehicle Excise Duties -Children in restaurants -Punctuality -Spurious snow forecasts

Today’s repast included: 1 x Twix 1 x packet of Disco crisps 1 x Fruit Pastilles (grab bag) 1 x crispy chocolate cake 1 x bottle of Coca Cola 8 x paracetamols 5 x black coffees or so. I feel much better now.

#PoorThings The Alasdair Gray novel I loved to bits, but I only half-loved the film. Feels like Yorgas wanted to make an eccentric work more ‘zany’, and I could sense the clapped-out spectre of Steampunk in the wings. #AlasdairGray

I don’t want to use the word ‘Kafkaesque’ but…. Another immersive, Hungarian flight of fancy, graced with the stamp of George Szirtes #FerencKarinthy #epepe #dede #tyetyetye #metropole

The fireplace of Arthur Machen…! (If possibly not the library.) #ArthurMachen #victorian #gothic #welshwriters

Overheard: “I’m going to make sure I eat lots of small amounts of doughy products…” #dough #overheard #products

This is a struggle for me. Possibly a bit smug at times. It might be the author photograph on the back. I don’t want to speak ill of old Javier, who’s no longer with us. Maybe I just don’t like the Oxford novel. Anyway I’m finishing it. #books #coffee #plugsockets

Other cafes are available. Other American writers are available. #hemingway #Coffee #booksofinsta #sorryimeanx #twittereven

I’ve had to pay £16 customs duty on a piece of musical equipment from the flipping Netherlands! What. Is. Next. Thanks for nothing, Nigel Garage. Nigel Farage MP #brexshit

#stigdagerman #coffee #books #literature LIFESTYYYLE

Haha Farage ,Brexit supporters. He took you for mugs then. As he is doing now.

Philosopher Emil Cioran died in Paris OTD in 1995. He was a friend to Samuel Beckett, who said of his book Démiurge, "In your ruins I find shelter." When Beckett won the Nobel Prize Cioran wrote, "What a humiliation for such a proud man. The sadness of being understood!"

That’s living alright! #georgeeliot #romola #literature #classics #bluedrink #slushie

🚨We just dropped in on Farage’s election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased.

Need to find somewhere for a good cry… #flaubert #asimpleheart #uncoeursimple

I am possibly drunk. #alfredjarry #faustroll

Bookshop, Looe #booklovers #bookshop #books #looe