14th Nov – Someone from the Ancestry site sent me an obituary of my great-grandfather.\u00a0 The phrase ‘engaged in suppressing the slave trade’ leapt off the page.\u00a0 It’s given me hope.<\/p>\n
15th Nov – In a car park, a young African immigrant was trying a car door and peering in the window.\u00a0 Then he walked over to another car as I watched suspiciously.\u00a0 I heard an electronic beep and he opened the door of a car identical to the first one he’d tried to unlock.<\/p>\n
16th Nov – A very butch butcher, tattooed and pierced, prickly asymmetrical haircut, a woman in men’s clothes, sold me some meat and asked for my shopping bag to put it in.\u00a0 Taking my small orange carry bag, she squealed “Oh that’s such a cute bag!\u00a0 So cute!” as only a girl can.<\/p>\n
17th Nov – A chicken pizza recipe found quickly online included no pizza base in its ingredients.\u00a0 Instead, chicken breasts are pounded flat and round until they resemble a base, on which you put all the toppings.\u00a0 Pffft.\u00a0 As if that’s a pizza.<\/p>\n
18th Nov – My son lost his mobile phone last night and today the city police station called to say someone had handed it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14th Nov – Someone from the Ancestry site sent me an obituary of my great-grandfather.\u00a0 The phrase ‘engaged in suppressing the slave trade’ leapt off the page.\u00a0 It’s given me hope. 15th Nov – In a car park, a young African immigrant was trying a car door and peering in the window.\u00a0 Then he walked … <\/p>\n