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And tray dropping could serve as a metaphor for the frustration of old age. Old age has also brought with it, she complains, misspellings and an over-reliance on exclamation marks. Morris describes herself as cynical but more often seems fierily nostalgic especially, in a qualified way, about empire, subject of her bestselling trilogy Pax Britannica She writes with blustery friendliness — the prose low-wattage.
She emphasises the importance of kindness as an agnostic, this is no Christian initiative. Her world is full of friends — not all of them animate. She is devoted to her antique car — a Morris Minor for a Morris major.
She often ends entries as though she were writing a letter: This book is also an opportunity to set records straight: She praises Richard Rogers for his Cardiff national assembly building which she had earlier vilified and, as a lifelong republican, is unexpectedly benign about royalty. She knows how to change her mind surely a contributing factor to longevity.
The nature of patriotism.
The troubling state of the world. And she ends by describing not for the first time the consolations of a bowl of mussels and a good glass of white wine by the sea.
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