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No dinner

I’ve found myself skipping dinner more and more often, or sometimes skipping lunch, and occasionally skipping lunch and dinner. Age? Boredom? The minor annoyances around cooking at home? Who can say?

Vertiginous

The currency’s plummeting is vertiginous, and there is an air of fear, of not knowing what comes, of dread and powerlessness all around. It’s hard to see how it will end, but no one seems to think the end will be anything other than a generation cast into poverty. It’s remarkable how prices have changed. […]

Wind from the southwest

Last night there was an almighty windstorm, closing off the Bosphorus, ripping off rooftops and sending trucks skidding onto their sides. Here one of our windows rattled rather a lot, as it is not fully fastened in, and I was a bit worried it might rip itself out of the window frame and fall on […]