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Jo Elvin

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Editor, broadcaster, writer, wearer of #clothesmyhusbandhates Substack https://joelvin.substack.com

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Anyone up? I went to bed at 5pm because I cannot handle the Sydney-London exhaustion.

24.11.2024 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Just remembered why I’m not really a cat person.

19.11.2024 22:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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I’m in Sydney and every time ai want to swim in the pool here I have to speak to the owner. Who is apparently this guy:

19.11.2024 09:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

18.11.2024 05:33 — 👍 27978    🔁 3640    💬 273    📌 386

Giving this a go with a weird blend of weariness and optimism. Hi!

19.11.2024 09:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

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