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I've bought a mouth organ, for the purpose of singing with the Cubs, and so as to be able to carry an instrument on hikes and so on. (A diatonic one, namely a Hohner Echo Super Vamper). It only occured to me later that I would also need to buy a book to find out which note is which and how to play the thing properly (though I have thus far this afternoon managed to more or less play 'Amazing Grace' and 'Taps' and something that sounded a bit like 'Mack the Knife'. Unfortunately I have not been able to repeat the trick for any of them)

A good job my flatmate's moved out, really.

Oy

Julie Burchill has got religion. Had my usual reaction to JB's writing, i.e. it inspires occasional moments of thinking 'that's a decent point', but mostly eye-rolling. Though the question (apart from why someone who is much more enthusiastic about the OT than the NT isn't Jewish) which presented itself most forcibly is how she reconciles her Protestant chauvinism with her admiration for Fr Gavin Ashenden, who sounds... fairly high up the candle.

Have started packing; need to find out if the rumour that you can abmeld online is true.

(My mind is all over the place at the moment, yes; why do you ask?)