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PS I forgot to mention,m despite having it on my outline, that it's my turn to reply to Rebecca Holden's letter: https://rebeccaholden.substack.com/p/138-a-letter-to-terry-reply-24-07 <snigger>

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Oh wow, go Beth on working that out. I was focussing far too much on the specific words rather than looking for some other pattern. Excellent. Also, enjoyed having to rotate my laptop 180 to be able to read that answer.

Cute fox!

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First a chest infection then a wisdom tooth pulled? Ugh.

Glad you had a nice time with family.

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Thanks for the shout out, Terry!

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I had to groan at “Offal Tower,” but if a certain orange-skinned candidate ends up elected over here, the Offal Office would be appropriate.

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Apr 9Liked by Terry Freedman

You look like you belong behind that desk, Terry! Funny cat, amazing choir. That upside-down typing is a first for me. I googled how to do it. How neat. Thank you for mentioning my story in your post. Much obliged!

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Apr 9·edited Apr 9Liked by Terry Freedman

Love the culinary sculpture, and your resident fox is a cutie. Sorry to hear of the tooth pain - I hope it eases daily. The cat videos were fantastic - I sent them to my daughter, the owner of Ivy the cat. Also, the Thomas Tallis piece is exquisite. I also sent it to my daughter, as she is a soprano and now I want her to sing that particular to me. Thank you for such a lovely piece of music that I'm listening to as I type this, at the end of my day. 😊 Oh! Your drawings! I love your drawings. A 2025 Calendar would be wonderful, "2025 Calendar Featuring the Art of Terry Freedman". Yes, please.

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Apr 9Liked by Terry Freedman

My wife (a cat lover in exile) laughed all the way through the 12 minute cat video.

I was enthralled by the chorale and can't remember the last time I was so moved. Such an exquisite performance!

But the thing I really want to know is HOW the heck did you learn to type upside down and backwards?

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Had I known you were stacking up

stunning Sumerian artifacts—edible that too—we’d have spared ourselves a trip to the Ashmolean museum at Oxford and headed straight to East London to Freedman Towers. But wait, that’d have been 5 hours too much of company;)) Hope you feel better! And many thanks for the mention of my blog😊. Hoping to do one more London blog on a famous horlogier:) And agree with Rebecca, this issue is wit packed…despite the pain! Are you sure you are not donning saffron for this kind of meditative spirit?:)

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Apr 8Liked by Terry Freedman

Love the cat video. But the owner would drive me mad! You can see why I’m a dog person and still single. Bah humbug. 😏 (Cute arting too.)

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Wow, this is a jam-packed edition of Start the week, Terry - what a terrific read! Great links, too - I've got some exploring to do....

So, your Oval Office wasn't the Oval Office at all, then? How could you be so devious? Next you'll be telling me that your Stonehenge image is a fake, too. 🙄

I would like to register my deep concern about Mocha being retrained as a basketball, but I nevertheless love your artist's impression of her in action on the court.

I hope you're recovering well from your wisdom tooth extraction - I am delighted to note that I can spot not a scintilla of evidence that a single scrap of your wisdom had been extracted along with it. Huzzah!

Thanks for Simon's Cat! I'm halfway through, and completely gripped. 😻

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