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The world is American

A grump-inducing moment in the Guardian today: Responsible production has become the hallmark of a respectable brand. To the people of Idaho, Washington and Oregon, who recently endured intense heatwaves, the fact that it takes 2,700 litres of water to produce a single cotton T-shirt in a world where droughts are becoming more common probably […]

A sort of savings

A better work day than yesterday, partly because I sent off the text I’d written to the person I’d written it for, and he was very pleased with it. So that started the morning off well, and the next task went rather more smoothly. In the afternoon, the GF and I returned to the paint […]

Weary old day

I am rather struggling with this new contract I’ve taken up. It’s strange because I should be able to just fire things out without much thought – it’s fairly simple writing work, far less complex than pretty much anything I’ve written or edited in years. I was talking it through with the GF, and he […]

Paint job

It was a funny sort of weekend, with both of us feeling anxious and tense about the flat and its progress, as well as various work related matters. For me, there was the annoyance of one of my longstanding clients revealing that as of two years ago invoices have to be submitted using a special […]