Friday, May 03, 2024

Voting, brownie and listening time.

1. The way polling stations appear overnight, apparently constructed from office supplies, and then vanish again at the end of the day.

2. The last piece of the brownie Bettany made at the weekend is now very gooey and soft -- exactly right.

3. Dozing and listening -- now we're on to the chapter about rotator cuff pathologies.

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