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Welcome to Newsletter #284

A bunch of tales I wanted to share with you

A tale I read

Cloud Watching by Brian Bilston

A tale I heard

Presenter Claudia Winkleman on her love of art:

"There are people who are much more expert than me but I do love it. My thing is Titian and Dutch 17th-century art. When I was little, my dad took me to the National Gallery every week and his rule was that I was only ever allowed to look at one painting. Really look at it. Maybe a Vermeer or a Stubbs for a full 45 minutes. Then we’d go to Chinatown and have a bowl of noodles."

A tale I saw

Geoff by Tim Key

A tale I wrote

There’s a pig on the shower tiles
made out of blue bath crayons.
It looks tired. Its tail is barely attached

to its wonky body. It’s learning how to be
here, unable to move its mouth
the way we are around it. It’s watching

everything, it’s watching nothing,
it’s completely unaware it is a pig
and not a pig and how loved it is.

A tail I like

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