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I tried to escape the confines of Balham in Oxshott

I tried to run away to the country, and found myself in an episode of The Prisoner

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

My London flat now has so little space in it I’ve begun storing stuff at the dry cleaners. Back in May, I checked a huge winter quilt in at Viking’s and left it there until the weather turned colder. There just wasn’t anywhere, not a single spare nook or cranny, to put it and quite frankly I balk at renting a £100 a month lock-up at the Big Yellow Storage so I can keep a spare winter duvet.

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