I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.



Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning:

“Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst Twitter: it’s like a bandpass filter that stops useful data getting through.”

🔥


How culture changes:

”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.”

From: Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill 📚


Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊‍♂️


Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with my early morning Sunday trips to the pool. An hour by the poolside with a book and a coffee. 👌🏻

Reading a book called Mermaids by the poolside.

I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in Starbucks last week. It’s been a long time since I consciously thought about their logo… 📚


After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this year, and am enjoying losing myself in other lives.


It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life.

It’s nice to be home in Sussex.


Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.