I have a new (old) laptop

given to me by my parents - or is it an old (new) laptop? - to replace the one given to me several years ago by my wife's parents.

Either way, my new old laptop is much quicker than my old new one, and doesn't insist on shutting down at random intervals.

At the moment, of course, it's sitting on the floor, just playing Spotify. But still: this is progress.

Bloody Nora

Sure, why would I bother?

- Mrs Joyce, on being asked whether she'd read Ulysses

James Joyce - in context

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of socially better-adjusted women.

Books I've actually finished lately: 8