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And this too Atlas ? U A Fanthorpe There is a kind of love called maintenance, which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it; which checks the insurance, and doesn?t forget the Milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs; which answers letters; which knows the way the money goes; which deals with dentists and Road Fund Tax and meeting trains, and postcards to the lonely; which upholds the permanently rickety elaborate structures of living; which is Atlas. And maintenance is the sensible side of love, which knows what time and weather are doing to my brickwork; insulates my faulty wiring; laughs at my dry rotten jokes; remembers my need for gloss and grouting; which keeps my suspect edifice upright in air, as Atlas did the sky.

We had this at our wedding Patagonia ? Kate Clanchy I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured a peninsula, wide enough for a couple of ladderback chairs to wobble on at high tide. I thought of us in breathless cold, facing a horizon round as a coin, looped in a cat?s cradle strung by gulls from sea to sun. I planned to wait till the waves had bored themselves to sleep, till the last clinging barnacles, growing worried in the hush, had paddled off in tiny coracles, till those restless birds, your actor?s hands, had dropped slack into your lap, until you?d turned, at last, to me. When I spoke of Patagonia, I meant skies all empty aching blue. I meant years. I meant all of them with you.

safest way to get a tick out is to rub alcohol or methylated spirits around the area and wait about 5/10 minutes - tick gets drunk, relaxes its legs and hey poresto, easy to pull out. Good old fashioned fly spray works too.