• Life’s existence is full of blips and glitches: venture for cheerfulness, seek comfort especially in discomfiture, acknowledge pleasure in what life can offer for nothing or very little, be friends with your fellow creatures and encourage your interests.
  • My winter project …
  • If you are disquieted by the perversion of privacy by tech businesses and agencies, whatever you do, don’t dig your nose in front of the computer. You may very well be bombarded by snot rag spam and handkerchief promos on your feed.
  • People with very little to worry about tend to find calamity in the most immaterial of matters.
  • Favourite fortified spirits: aguardente and armagnac. Hope the birthday faery delivers.