27th July – A new student’s mother, a public servant, asked me to help get her daughter ‘moving forward’.<\/p>\n
28th July – Today I submitted two pretty colour photos (rather than black and white) and got more ‘likes’ in one day than ever before.\u00a0 Clearly, more people prefer sweetness and light.<\/p>\n
29th July – On the online German language course, I’ve been taught to say Orangen haben Fleisch – oranges have meat!\u00a0 I’ve been laughing at this, but today my son bought a blood orange, tore it open and showed me its red flesh and red juice, the colour of blood.\u00a0 The colour of meat.<\/p>\n
30th July – Our local government has banned free plastic bags.\u00a0 In the bakery today, I was asked to pay 20c for a huge brown paper bag.<\/p>\n
31st July – Two weeks’ ago, I heard fifth-hand news that a guy in the Housing flats was torturing someone and was going to be taken away.\u00a0 He’s still there.\u00a0 Today, I heard fifth-hand news that he’s a victim of crime and the police are moving him to a safer address.\u00a0 He’s still there.\u00a0 I heard all this from a woman who heard it from a woman who heard it from a woman who heard it from the woman who works at the checkout at the local shop, who apparently heard it from the guy himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
27th July – A new student’s mother, a public servant, asked me to help get her daughter ‘moving forward’. 28th July – Today I submitted two pretty colour photos (rather than black and white) and got more ‘likes’ in one day than ever before.\u00a0 Clearly, more people prefer sweetness and light. 29th July – On … <\/p>\n