If you’ve known me for a while, you might be aware that I used to be very poor indeed. How poor? Well, most of my meals consisted of:

day old bread
lunchmeat ends, bought in random packs for cheap
pasta
apples
water
things I took from trays left on tables at restaurants

Obviously, this was before I became a veg-head, and it [...]

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” A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.
So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.”
Nick Drake [from the morning]
After a week of feeling rather under the weather, I awoke today with a smile [...]

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“Come across the painted smiles
Come across some faith
Laughing at the cruel jokes
Laughing at a death
Laughing at some other fool
Laughing with the rest”
[Dali's Car, Cornwall Stone]
Things I simply will not tolerate include: racism, sexism, “fatism” or any other sort of xenophobic, hateful rhetoric. And yes, I’m using “xenophobe” to indicate that foreign = people outside of [...]

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