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Looking forward to the movie version of the #BlenheimPalace loo theft: The Great Drain Robbery. A gang of elderly plumbers led by Michael Caine. Tagline: One last jobby.

So the tympan on the platen (go me with the jargon) of my printing press turns out to be packed with newspaper from the February election day of 1974 – the craziest year of British politics before 2019.

@neil_hallows Quiz systems are go!

@neil_hallows Only swear words. Will reply to email tomorrow!

@richardf @charlbury Ha! Replies must be hand printed to give people time to think carefully!

I’m inordinately excited by my ‘new’ 1950s printing press. First will be a bit of restoration work. Taking publishing back to basics!

Interesting programme on @BBCRadio4 by @TheVerity_Of_It about small-scale rewilding but Germaine Greer is in privileged cloud cuckoo land to say the average British garden is a third of an acre!

I’m rather chuffed to have been invited by the ambassador of Kazakhstan to a ‘conceptual concert’. For real. I can’t go, but will be there conceptually, at least.