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    update from the (not so) cheap seats!

    And a quick debrief; it’s the halfway mark, the weekend activities are in full swing and the annual challenge of seeing as many films on the schedule as possible when they’re spread across four different screens each with it’s own timetable is proving as enjoyable as ever if endlessly frazzle-inducing. So far I have only fallen asleep once, ditto going…

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    we’re all going on a…

    And it’s raining! I was starting to think the sky had forgotten how, bar the sudden lunchtime downpour this last Friday which caught me out on the way to yoga and made my mat soggy. Time for an update after a few weeks of very necessary slowness in every sense of the word, not least because of the heat even…

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    allez les Bleus (et les Seasiders)!

    And what a World Cup it was! Even if the lasting memory for many of us watching the final from the UK last week was envy, both of Russia for their rain and Croatia for their president. Congratulations to France, and all without your star striker getting a single shot on target for the duration of the tournament. Staggering stuff.…