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What I’ve been watching in 2024

We still have a telly. It sits in the corner over there. Once or twice a week, we might find where the remote control went and fire the gogglebox up to catch some news. Otherwise, it spends most of its life wasting milliwatts on standby. 

That said, I do use it to watch DVDs. I’ve only got a small collection, various films, some TV series box sets, that sort of thing. If I feel in the mood, I’ll take a disc from the shelf and turn the lights down and volume up, and wallow in some escapism for an hour or two.

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What I’ve been reading in 2024

As with last year’s review, I haven’t provided links to purchase any of the books here. You can, no doubt, find them easily enough from the usual places — unless it can be avoided I have dropped Amazon as my go-to book store, preferring to use a small independent shop, The Wedale Bookshop. They are part of a network of bookshops across the UK, supported by Bookshop.org. Read more about it on this link-clicky-thing.

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