Notes
Short thoughts.
Observations, asides and things that occurred to Chris. Shorter than an essay, longer-lived than they used to be.
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I was once accused of having “delusions of grandeur”, which seems like a pretty impertinent thing to say to The King Of The Universe.
On SubstackWhenever someone says, "Do bears shit in the woods?", I point out that polar bears don't and then congratulate myself on being really quite brilliant.
On SubstackI never know whether to be furious or impressed when I can't get the lid off a tube of superglue.
On SubstackWhat's your earliest food memory? Mine is mixing spices for my dad's curry while he chopped onions beside me. My daughter's is sitting on the kitchen worktop every Sunday picking rosemary for the roast potatoes. Funny how the things we remember are rarely the food itself. I'd genuinely love to hear yours.
On SubstackAllow Me To Opine... Not to kink-shame, but whoever it was that decided to put chorizo in handcuffs has some fucking explaining to do.
On SubstackAllow Me To Opine… Maybe I'm a sad little man. Maybe my life is empty. Or, maybe, it's just because I'm approaching 40, but there's something about putting on a brand new pair of socks that makes me feel like I could fucking leapfrog over a double-decker bus or something.
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