Firstly, a brief eulogy to Nicholas Howard who died a few days ago of bladder cancer. A kind a generous man who has been in the background all my life, i wish i could be there to say good bye to him. I hope my parents are ok, once again i cannot be there to support them when they are going through a tough time. So, i had 4 days road-tripping around the north island with Flo and Sophia, which should have been a whole heap of fun. Unfortunately, they spent the entire time arguing with one another or sulking post-argument. There was maybe an hour of care-free fun over the whole 4 days. Don't get me wrong, there lovely people and i will go visit them in Berlin at some point, but it was a
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