Still wearing in fifty-four. It feels OK ...

Here are three more additions to the current Ear Food ...

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these two featuring the utterly wonderful Patricia I-always-need-to-check-the-spelling- Kopatchinskaja

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... to be honest ... not as good as I'd hoped ... but the last three tracks (Eat That Question, Peaches en Regalia & Uncle Meat) are pretty spiffy. To my mind & ears the drums are too up front in the mix.

bottled over the yes but only 

cold of anyhow cracking 

beneath assumptions

                       you’re crumbling mountains

dear friend, 

                      & the rain drops ache with forbidden words

unfortunate,

                       poetry will always adore you 

                          

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Began my 54th year with a quick jog followed by a swim. Glorious sunny morning with snow like a mild case of dandruff.

The Wales win yesterday counted as an early birthday present. Sadly Italy didn’t cause the upset I was hoping for against England.

Rumours afoot that a ‘dream team’ is being formed to depose May - Boris plus Gove & the Rees-Mogg. Just imagine ...

New month. New notebook.