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Aug. 14th, 2025

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 A wild party. A young man is showing his penis to the girls- who titter. I turn to the person next to me and say, "I am pretending to disapprove."

The dog is unhappy. It opens its jaws and I see it has a wrist watch stuck to the roof of its mouth. I remove the watch

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Aug. 14th, 2025 05:59 pm
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 The Eastbourne Air Show started today.

A shadow flickers over the space I'm occupying and I look up and see a huge, slow-moving, flying behemoth moving away from me- and identify it as a Lancaster bomber. I'm a Quaker and a peacenik but I'm also the kid who grew up in the fifties- when we were impoverished and exhausted from the experience of four years of total war and keeping up our spirits by telling ourselves how well we'd done in standing up to Adolf- and I can't see one of our old warplanes and not want to jump up and down and wave my arms about.....

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