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How Stevie Nicks wrecked my marriage.
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Private inequity and nontent
Nothing-content, angry women and the pub-stack.
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Five trains.
Travel is a religious experience. They say.
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Metamorphosis
Greening.
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This is how you turn 40
with a month of adventures.
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London drowning.
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005 — Stocks and ’stacks
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Five trains.
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Start here.
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awkward E N C O U N T E R S 👀

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Metamorphosis
Greening.
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The Hamptons of England
A survival guide. Windows, boot rooms and driving on the left.
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A run-in
with my own relentless mortality.
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Moon walk
Draw the fucking owl.
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Home alone
Night terrors.
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Fear and loathing
in the Cotswolds.
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Zero
Smashing phone skins, dragonflies and dreams of glass.
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City of the Dead
Lost rivers, a bus ride through London and an awkward post-script, from the country.
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the P U B

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007 — Pub-licity
Ancient Greek poetry, modern woodworking and the pub.
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006 — More enshittification
Trees, films and yes: still, the pub.
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005 — Stocks and ’stacks
Scaling the wall, an update on the pub and some thoughts on "community".
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004 — The Village Stocks (and shares)
An update on the pub, an awkward celebrity encounter — and, in honour of the season, a short history of Oxford witches.
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003 — Quality Street 🍫
An update on the pub, some things to read — and some thoughts on the 'stack.
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002 — EAT DA RICH
On day jobs, apathy — and the strange, class struggle of trying to save the cultural heritage of people who don’t care to save it themselves.
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001 — Enshittification
Of a village pub, and other tales of private inequity
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This is how you turn 40
with a month of adventures.
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Dublin
and the Cotswolds, where I brake for butterflies, and toads.
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London drowning.
Flood words.
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Ode to Oxford
When they weigh my heart, they will find in it a spired city of books.
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Sarajevo
Held together with superglue, and prayers.
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Vienn-again
Vi-encore?
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Five trains.
Travel is a religious experience. They say.
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Copenhagen
Awkward encounters with models, girls in the mist and smoking a J.
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the N O T E B O O K S 📚

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14 - Nerds
and how to get in their pants.
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13 — Shag, Marry, Kill.
Bottoms up.
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12 — Sex chess
How Stevie Nicks wrecked my marriage.
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11 — Myspace
Message fate and a wait for a roommate to masturbate.
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Life Litter
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Things, and all the other daily detritus that washes up on this shore.
the N O T E B O O K S 📚
Fictionalised memoirs of exams, sex and adventure, in Oxford and beyond. Anaïs Nin meets Kerouac meets High Fidelity: failing expectations, unfulfilled potential and unrequited love.
the P U B
My village is trying to buy our local pub. This is the ongoing story.

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The Hamptons of England
A survival guide. Windows, boot rooms and driving on the left.
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Jill
18
Dublin
and the Cotswolds, where I brake for butterflies, and toads.
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Jill
15
London drowning.
Flood words.
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15
eGODs
and ancient impersonal malice.
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14 - Nerds
and how to get in their pants.
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A run-in
with my own relentless mortality.
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13 — Shag, Marry, Kill.
Bottoms up.
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