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High life

Another birthday has got me down, but the alternative is being dead

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

If it hadn’t arrived I’d be dead, but it was hardly welcome: another birthday — 38 years old on 11 August, but for any pedant among you, reverse the numerals and you’ll get it right. Thirty-eight came to me as I was sparring with a young whippersnapper from Norway recently.

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