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Trying to get everyone to agree is a wild goose chase

LAST WEEK SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT wasn’t very Christmassy. I was staring at the damp patch on the wall of my study, watching it get bigger and bigger as the rain came down when an email landed from a musician I’d had a meeting with the previous day.

She loved the idea, she said, of the project we’d been discussing but she’d been doing a bit of digging and had discovered that I edit a website called . She wasn’t totally right. is edited by a nice lady called Charlotte but admittedly, they do run the odd recipe from and our reviews too, from time to time, of things like those new deer stalking trousers: the windproof, waterproof,

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