Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
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All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
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I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
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Nothing: I live in the now.
“Your cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
I had an opportunity many years ago to move to America and be given a daytime TV show. The kids were quite young and I decided not to, but looking back I wish I had done it.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
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