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Diary: 11-16 August

Aug 16, 2020Aug 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Will the virus dictate how our immediate world is modelled in the future?

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Diary: 4-10 August

Aug 10, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 7 Comments

Thankfully, Hotel Chocolat on Cannon Street was open to buy some emergency chocolates

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Diary: 1-3 August

Aug 4, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

One of the huge terrapins was even out on a rock, sunbathing

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Diary: July 2020

Aug 2, 2020Aug 4, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes: Gothic horror, a slip-up with the Nuclear Trigger, and a drunken duck on the loose

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Diary: 29-31 July

Aug 1, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Discarded face masks and rubber gloves will be neatly preserved as fossils in the geological record

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Diary: 26-28 July

Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'She pedalled furiously with a dead and rigid Lulu in her pannier'

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Diary: 22-25 July

Jul 26, 2020Jul 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'In the back of a cupboard we found an old Sony Discman, which still works perfectly'

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Diary: July 19-21

Jul 22, 2020Jul 23, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'In Parsons Green we heard two sisters compare the number of marriage proposals they'd had'

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Diary: July 16-18

Jul 19, 2020Jul 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'He is originally from Australia and anally incontinent in front of a camera'

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Diary: July 12-15

Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'Rishi is greasing a comfortable path to Boris's job'

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Diary: July 9-11

Jul 12, 2020Jul 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A group of giraffes is called a Tower

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Diary: July 5-8

Jul 9, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'Trump hysterically defines anyone he doesn't agree with as a raving commie'

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Diary: July 1-4

Jul 5, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 4 Comments

‘I wonder if Nick Cave has changed his mind about an interventionist God’

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Diary: June 2020

Jul 4, 2020Jul 3, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘Floyd died gasping for breath as the nation was in the grip of a pandemic that restricts respiration’

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Diary: June 28-30

Jun 30, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'The message describes being hit in the mouth by a fast-food projectile'

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Blogging gave me back my voice

Jun 30, 2020Jul 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

I started this blog as part of my treatment and recovery from a stroke

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Diary: June 26-27

Jun 28, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'Heartbreak hangs heavily over anyone with the surname Peggotty'

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Diary: June 24-25

Jun 26, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'Kaufmann paid for private models and did her nudie drawing on the sly'

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Diary: June 21-23

Jun 24, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'We kept one of the seedlings for ourselves, just in case an oak tree might come in useful one day'

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Diary: June 17-20

Jun 21, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes: Marcus Rashford, the Big Massive Telly and immunity passports

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