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So I finished reading Fahrenheit 451, and I was disappointed. It’s a book about burning books, at face value, and it should be burnt.

It’s also about learning from our past mistakes and the value of information. I will take that with me, at least. Perhaps I am missing the point, so it is just as well it took only two days to read. Now I start on the next Harry Potter (order of the Phoenix). It will be my third book in a week, but I suspect it will take a good while longer than the last two.

I didn’t sleep well last night. I was still awake at half two, so took myself into the lounge and eventually drifted off some time nearer three. I woke up at six and then again, not quite so completely, at eight - just in time to make some breakfast, miss a train, sit on a delayed tube and be late on my first day back at work.

Fortunately I’d brought in Spanish sweeties, which served to placate.

It was Leo’s last day, so after a morning of checking and replying to mail (and deleting spam - only 0.007% of my mail is not spam, fact) we traipsed around to Star Cafe for lunch. Various order mix-ups ensued, but my all-day vegetarian breakfast arrived precisely as order and I ate all my mushrooms, so I would have qualified for pudding had I not been quite so stuffed.

We gave him his card and present and customary comemorative catch-phrase filled cover, which is a traditional leaving gift on any magazine, mere minutes before he popped off and then, after rounds of applause, we were left to sit in a quiet office with one empty chair.

Had it been smoking it would have been like the Spectre scene in Thunderball.

But it wasn’t.

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