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So today we closed the issue, which is always a nice day. Well, actually, the day is never nice because it’s always horribly busy, but the end of it is good, when it’s all behind you and you know that tomorrow you start on a new one.

This one, though, has left me feeling utterly shattered, so I don’t know why I’m still up now, when it’s closer to midnight than it is to 11. I don’t think last night’s late night out helped. I crept in at midnight-o-something and managed to crash the door into the wall, probably waking up the whole road and rather negating all my efforts to tip-toe through the house.

We’d been out to celebrate K’s birthday: K, Ems and me, as Ems and I can’t make the official party tomorrow night. We had the most expensive drinks in London at the Long Bar in Sanderson. £2 change from £40 for just three, but they were so yummy. Lemonberry somethingorother, I had. It was like a warm sorbet with a kumquat on the side. Ems had something pink with olives, and K sipped down a tiramisu cocktail that was like a pot of double cream with coffee beans on top.

I had thought they might not let me in with my t-shirt and combats, which were dripping with tea from where I’d managed to pour a whole mug over them in the kitchen half an hour before.

The Sanderson is a very special place. It used to be a wallpaper factory, and still looks like a boring, anonymous office block from the outside. Inside, though, it’s beautifully decorated: all shiny and reflective, and they say (although I have no proof) that there are no walls around the toilets in each room: just a lacy curtain. If you weren’t pee-shy already, that would be enough to dry you up for a week.

Bizarrely, though, I can’t find its web site - only links to reviews or booking agents. Could it be that it needs the publicity so little that it can actually do without one?

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