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Making the switch

In breaking news, the Queen is dead. Also, I have realised I’m now officially a Renaissance Man.

This does not mean I am middle-aged and undergoing a renaissance, although it is indeed true that I am middle-aged and, since moving from the Big Smoke to the Sticks, have gone through something like a regeneration.

Nor, when I say I’m a Renaissance Man, do I mean that I am a man who, of to moveable type to the works of Raphael. And, of course, I am not saying I was born during the Renaissance, although it is true that some mornings I feel about 500 years old.

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