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5 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Just feeling maudlin - 70th birthday in a week’s time, without Steve.
Not asking for sympathy, I know so many other people have suffered losses.
But it’s a bugger, nonetheless.
Had a lovely chat last week with my mother-in-law (100 in May) when she reminded me that ‘Stephen always joked that he married an older woman’.
This was because I was 2 months older than him!
Cheering myself up with some of my favourite booster tracks:
- Bryn Terfel & the Dunvant Male choir: Calon Lan
- Phil Coulter/Nathan Carter: The Town I Knew so Well
- Rod Stewart: Grace, & Downtown Train
Found Rod & Maggie May on Youtube - from the time I was living in a flat in Hammersmith in 1971, met Steve not long after
Now watching Rod singing ‘Forever Young’ 😀

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1940s civil servant on how Britain had fallen into the second tier post war:
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.@D0Sullivan, who was EU ambassador to US at the time of the status downgrade there, said the UK decision to take a similar approach was ‘surprising’.”
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More stupid pettiness.

And our chap in Bxl has got diplo status as Amb, AFAIK.
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And Trump is reducing the number of govt inspectors & allowing unlimited speeds of meat plant lines so each carcass is inspected for contamination for - 2.6 seconds
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