Writers avoiding work: in the 1970s Jonathan Raban signed off a letter to fellow travel writer Jan Morris by reporting a scaffolder's van parked outside his Seattle home promising ‘A Good Erection Every Time’.

Thanks for this. A brief and excellent insight into sibling dynamics when one has a lifelong disability – and leavened by humour.

Total love for this. Top line from Part II: 'Thick as Tewkesbury mustard'. IM: true superstar

More droning. Is it though, All Right for You?
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'There are passions that have to be private to be felt, and others that have to be communal to be real.' Very good Adam Gopnik newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Hey ⁦Hampstead Heath⁩ why is this area next to paddling pool on Heath padlocked? It has four benches and is accessible to people with reduced mobility who can’t otherwise get onto Heath

Happy #NationalSiblingsDay2024 indeed! Me and Matt in 1966, and this week. You love them more, not less

MEN! Accentuate parts of your body you like e.g. nice smile, to draw attention away from problem areas, e.g. consistently poor judgement

The quote is Auden's. But the zimmer is Morris'.

'And even seen it scribbled on /The backs of railway guides.'

Oh but I often do

Highgate and Hampstead just now, opposite ends of same rainbow. Happy Easter.

My Easter read and what a fabulous one. She is risen! In the first pages the protagonist looks at an old wedding photo of strangers and notes the groom smiling apologetically in acknowledgment of future transgressions

So enjoyed this imaginative hugely empathetic doc: Orlando. My Political Biography
imdb.com/title/tt264489…

Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment.

Radical Wolfe - ⁦BerthaDocHouse⁩ ❤️ superstar good dochouse.org/event/radical-…

Garrick Club Barbie

From issue 1531

I'm interviewing a man footballer about what it's like to be a footballer at the same time as being a man. What should I ask him?