Slower than in living memory lately.  Perhaps I'm getting as much go-slow as I can before the Great Return (date as yet unspecified but imminent).  Have strategically altered placement of radio alarm in endeavour to get out of bed tomorrow during the Today programme's 7-8 slot, rather than  in the silence that follows. 

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Will my Parkin refuse to go sticky if I keep peeking at it?

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Walking everywhere in proper winter walking boots;  can't forget buying them new laces in the run-up to my first operation, wholly aware of the absurd displacement-activity-madness of it all.

Wandered around Woolworth's final day - a sad, seedy experience.  Even the shop fixtures had been ripped down and were on sale.

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In a triumph of sense over spontaneity, ordered Emma Tennant's 'The Autobiography of the Queen' from the library en route home.