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20 October

It's my birthday! And what a great day it's been so far. My camper van has broken down (again), it's pouring with rain, I'm 32 (aaaargh!) and I've got two deadlines to meet by the end of the day. To top it all, I woke up to the news that yet another report on climate change has concluded that the problem is so huge that it might wipe out any of our efforts to relieve global poverty over the next few decades.

Oh joy! Oh rapture! Perhaps I should have stayed in bed. Birthdays always do this to me these days. I pine for the years of my childhood when a gaudily decorated cake, a visit to McDonalds with my schoolfriends and a new bike with stabilisers would bring me untold joy that would last for weeks.

Oh, and who decided that Allan Hollinghurst should get the Booker Prize? OK, I haven't read his book, so I don't want to be unfair. But I have read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and it's unwaveringly brilliant. No doubt about it, it's an unfair world.

Posted by paul at October 20, 2004 06:57 PM

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