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Saturday July 19th 2025

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I decided today that I needed some really boring domestic appliances: one of those hand held hoovers (HHH) a scale for watching the weight fall off (haha) I have one from the sixties, looks great, doesn’t work properly, and another metal fan for the back room - they say metal fans are the best. None of these items were in stock, so I left with nothing. But as the shop was next door to the psychedelic psupermarket I tried to buy what I might need for 4 days before I leave for Hamburg - fake bees, plastic heron beaks, square oranges and packets of questions.

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