15dec25

The midnight salvia is somehow still going. I need to start rebuilding and replanning the garden next month.

TODAY:

• Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele found dead in LA home
• Europe starts learning how to shoot down drones
• What Happens to China’s Surplus Men? The one-child policy’s gender imbalance has spawned desperate bachelors, dubious gurus, and a rising manosphere.

OPERATIONS: Basically, all the things.
STATUS: One of those days where you just wake up exhausted. It’s a damp day. Email is full of delivery notifications. Also I have to start wrapping Xmas gifts and do a small repair on a sack – a few years ago I bought a personalised gifts sack for herself from Fortnum’s, and one of the letters of her name has started peeling off. Am I the arse who buys personalsed large gift sacks from Fortnum and Mason? I am.
READING: THE CELESTIAL HUNTER, Roberto Calasso
LISTENING: UNCLASSIFIED
LAST WATCHED: A episode and a half of THE WAR BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA, which I do not need to see any more of

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