Walk home past lemon 🍋 and olive trees. Unfortunately, the comfort of being at home in a place is incompatible with the excitement of being in an exotic location. So we now have the happy sense that Cyprus is one of our homes, but have lost the thrill that we had in December 2000 of seeing oranges on the trees - trees at that time in Syntagma Square in Athens, also decorated with Christmas lights.
Now reading aloud Heroic Failure by Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole. A look at Brexit through the lens of England’s (not Britain’s - he specifically exempts the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish) exceptionalism, conscious sense of superiority, and experience of loss of empire. Because “when your neighbour is going mad it is only reasonable to want to understand the source of their distress”. Written with wit and insight. A bit over the top, but much truth in it.
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