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• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  It will come as no surprise to those who know me that I'm typing this from the cubbyhole under the stairs which I have equipped with bedding, a mountain of tinned and dried food and a paraffin stove (well, no,...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  As I am not going to get anything constructive done in the near future (replay of recent past), due to this and the recent diagnosis of my eldest surviving family member with a particularly unpleasant and aggressive form of dementia...
• Commented on Downtime coming up
  You're just trying to avoid comparisons between the surviving candidates for the Tory leader and characters in the Laundry Files, aren't you?...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
  The 'Inevitable Brexit' thread. Oh, I do hope not....
• Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
  Most of whom? Is that based on the assumption that only living people comment on Charlie's blog? (Probably true that the live commenters outnumber the dead, but I wouldn't lay money that the occasional revenant doesn't appear). Or is it...
• Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
  "the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,...
• Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
  Somebody hasn't read the script: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/27/russia-and-us-will-cooperate-to-build-moon-first-space-station...
• Commented on The internet of decay
  Might be tempting to funeral companies to hack un-maintained home control systems and shuffle the elderly off this mortal coil by interfering with their heating in winter/aircon in summer... Or just stop the alert systems working when grandma has a...