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For a homeless guy, Lloyd truly made me feel at home.

Latvian vegetables do not always have an inviting exterior, but the substance is rich and more colourful than their appearance would lead you to believe. Latvians, too.

Whispering hoarsely into my ear, so that Bailey the dog cannot hear, Pete tells me he wants to surprise Bailey with a birthday cake. But not just any old birthday cake. A birthday spacecake.

With a sterling reputation for beggary, and arguably the highest rate of homelessness in the country, it is a Mecca for the vagrants and vagabonds of the United Kingdom. It is quite true to its reputation, catering to all destitute sorts, by way of charity, tent pitch, or drugs – all of which will be recurring themes in upcoming pieces.

As I awake today, without the sound of blaring music, I think: it is quite considerate of the Latvians to awaken all of the town to announce the commencement of a quite intense and tiring job, which all should acknowledge and celebrate.

I have left my job and am boarding a one-way flight off my beloved Guernsey in T-minus 18 days. On that note I must say: there will be an open-ended hiatus on this blog-ramble-page.

Play is serious; natural and necessary. As an adult, I don’t play with bubbles. Yet as I behold the maniacally enthused children a-chasing them, I am convinced there’s little reason to live life in too different a manner. Happily. Enthusiastically. Wholeheartedly. With wonder. With the seriousness of a child at play.

Original ideas only originate in a great mind and – for the rest of us – within a good conversation.

“What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate – and immediately forget we have done so.”

Glorious Guernsey, a civilisation wherein families take the time to paint pebbles, to beautify our Town Church, and to brighten a dull and eerie time. Some left them in memory of loved ones lost. It is the act of a vandal and a barbarian to steal them.