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    BIRD’S WORDS

    Jan 09, 2023 3 minutes

    THIS WEEK JOHN WILL BE

    Watching: Extras, comedy series on BBC iPlayer

    Reading: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

    Listening: Ricky Nelson’s Greatest Hits

    Doing: Preparing ammunition for the parliamentary and Big Issue activities of 2023

    If you read my column regularly you will know I have occasionally struggled with trying to read James Joyce’s. For Christmas I awarded myself a vast book full of annotations and notes called, edited by Catherine Flynn. I am determined to finish this big bugger by the middle of the year. And now there

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