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Low life

My sojourn in the Test Valley

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

After north Cornwall I came to the Test Valley, I think. That is what it says on the council vans anyhow. An immensely kind family lent me an immense cottage in farmland a mile outside a village.

I’ve started new drugs costing the French taxpayer €4,000 a month. Possible side effects are thrush and fatigue.

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