Thai fried rice, medicine for the birds, a mosquito inside the net, plastic-and-duct-tape plans to seal the room, wasted data, more Fear the Walking Dead downloads, and a scatter of crime and family-memory fragments make...

Returned after a writing ban, logged Covid death and vaccination details, reflected on Sri Lanka politics and Afghanistan, then eyed Port City links

The day starts with Mr Cool, body pain, and work for James, then turns into brain drain, delayed meetings with Thilanga, and the difficulty of keeping strong people committed to a slow country, before the night swerves into...