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Low life

My evening as a rapacious capitalist

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

An isolated Provençal stone farmhouse from the outside; from the inside a comfortable English country house. Sunk into the garriguea short distance away is an impossibly blue infinity swimming pool. My two grandsons came here direct from their tiny house in Basingstoke. Catriona was fortuitously asked to house-sit for ten days.

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