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I just found a small beetle wandering around my armchair
As William Blake wrote, "For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." However, not only did he miss the point that some life (me) fails to delight in certain other life (beetles on my armchair), he also failed to offer guidance on how to deal with a black holy thing wandering about the spot where I wish to sit.
I used a bit of kitchen roll to transport it to the window, and ejected it into the night from whence it came.
I tend to book a month ahead, after the time I had to spend a week travelling on the Metropolitan Line from Watford because I'd been tardy in making my booking at Edgware, where one has access to the vastly superior Northern Line.
And don't even get me started on the journey from Kenton on the Bakerloo Line, the other time I failed that way - that was the one where, on checking in, the hotel receptionist handed one a card bearing the Metropolitan Police logo to place in one's car stating "All Valuables Removed From Vehicle" - which really inspired confidence in both the hotel security and the Police
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