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Jun 07 2024
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The Imperial, Toronto

Thursday 6th June 2024, 4.00pm (day 4,669)

Imperial pub, 6/6/24

I continue to munch air miles in 2024, as I have returned to Toronto for a couple of weeks’ work. On my first afternoon I was wondering what picture I should get to best represent the city where I’ve already spent 17 days of my life. The CN Tower, or other big, tall buildings? Another of the fine collection of murals? But in the end, let’s go with a pub, as there are some fine drinking holes to be found here — including the Imperial pub downtown, as pure a 1970s relic of interior design as I have ever seen. It still has working aquaria, for heaven’s sake. I saw the girl’s reflection in the mirrored pillar and tried it.

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May 21 2024
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Somewhere over Africa

Monday 20th May 2024, 10.30pm (day 4,652)

Asleep on plane, 20/5/24

There have been various flights depicted on here down the years and, I am guessing, my total amount of sleep achieved across all of them probably comes to little more than an hour or two. Ten minute dozes might have been snatched here and there on flights once a year, maybe. Johannesburg to Istanbul last night was no different for me. My neighbour did OK but failed to share the knack.

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May 19 2024
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The old board, Saint FM

Thursday 17th May 2024, 11.00am (day 4,649)

Radio plugs, 17/5/24

Had cause to return to Saint FM this morning, not to appear on the radio (unlike last time), just for a chat. My eye was drawn to this board, partly because of its nice grain, also because of the essential randomness of what’s there and what’s not. What did microphones 2 and 5-8 do to offend? What of L1, and what is an L anyway (loudspeaker)? Could I have centred it all a bit better? Probably.

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Apr 30 2024
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Anne’s Place, and its flags

Monday 29th April 2024, 1.45pm (day 4,631)

Anne's Place flags, 29/4/24

Anne’s Place in Jamestown is a St Helena institution and is the go-to spot for tourists and locals alike. Many of the former have, down the years, contributed the flags that now obscure its corrugated-iron ceiling. Some of these are fabulously obscure; the one with yellow and black checks near the bar proudly commemorates “Sutton United FC: Papa Johns’ Trophy Final 2022”. To not only have brought such an object all the way to St Helena, but to have, presumably, done so specifically to donate it: that’s commitment.

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Apr 10 2024
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Pak choi and sheep skull

Wednesday 10th April 2024, 1.45pm (day 4,612)

Pak choi and sheep skull, 10/4/24

Clare thinks that this picture should be called ‘Death and Rebirth’. Perhaps it’s also an attempt to produce a combination of terms that has never and will not again appear on a single Google search. My last day at home for some time. See you later.

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Apr 05 2024
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Reading, with pen

Thursday 4th April 2024, 3.15pm (day 4,606)

Reading with pen, 4/4/24

My job title is Reader, and I agree with a senior Professor of my acquaintance who, a while back in my ‘annual review’, said — “You’re a Reader, do some fucking reading”. Yes, I do write in my books: call it ‘annotation’ and you can get away with it. Yes, this book does start with a discussion of Star Trek. But it’s all work, I promise.

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Mar 26 2024
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The backgammon contest

Monday 25th March 2024, 4.50pm (day 4,596)

Backgammon, 25/3/24

It was a tense one, but I think Jack (on the left and playing white) just nicked it in the end.

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Mar 16 2024
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Enigma

Friday 15th March 2024, 12.30pm (day 4,586)

Enigma machine, 15/3/24

Found another excuse to leave home for a while and come for a weekend in Milton Keynes, which may not sound the most immediately glamorous destination, but it does have the significant draw of Bletchley Park. It was here that World War 2 was won, arguably, when a (largely female) staff of thousands worked tirelessly to crack German ciphers, mainly produced by the now-famous Enigma machines, of which the museum still has a few dozen, out of about 450 surviving ones apparently.

Do you know that if Enigma had ever enciphered a letter as itself, the code would have been near-impossible to crack? But this was its fatal weakness, giving just enough indication that particular strings of gibberish might just be commonly-used phrases like “Wetter für heute” [‘the weather for today…’] and allowing each daily machine setting to be worked out.

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Mar 09 2024
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At uni, late

Thursday 7th March 2024, 5.05pm (day 4,578)

Late uni class, 7/3/24

I am not often to be found at work after 5pm — not ‘in the office’ anyway — and heaven forbid that uni’s now seemingly random system of allocating timetable slots gives me a 5-6pm class next year, or any other year. I can feel the ennui even when spying on them from across the corner of the Ellen Wilkinson Building.

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Feb 29 2024
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Anticipation of a place to come

Wednesday 28th February 2024, 1.05pm (day 4,570)

Namibia map, 28/2/24

A day spent at home was enlivened by the arrival of a travel itinerary, map and other stuff from the very competent people I’ve been dealing with at Expert Africa regarding my upcoming travels — which will certainly get me out and about. As I may have already said on here more than once, I do like a good map. It was my flights over Namibia last year that prompted me to want to go there, and in April, I will.

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