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Cornwall Update

So it only took me four days to find internet access. I'm in Fowey, apparently home of Daphne du Maurier, surfing on free wireless at the Toll Bar. I will almost certainly be back here.

Fowey (pronounced Foye) is like the Hampstead of Cornwall, as far as I can tell. I was just sitting next to a family where the parents had clearly had their teeth whitened, and their kids were called Sebastian, Atticus and Mathilda. I kid you not.

What've I done?

A friend flew across the water to hang out, and we walked the coastal path, went shopping, went out for dinner, talked, caught up... very relaxing

I have taken my car on a ferry. This is a slightly disturbing experience, although I will also have to do it on the way home

Walked quite a long way up country lanes that appear to go nowhere

Just done nothing. Which has been remarkably nice

Got a lot of early nights

Written. Read. Re-read. Re-written.

Been to a lot of shops that sell surf clothes. I do not surf.

Let a lot of people pass me at the passing places.

Talked a lot slower. There is less immediacy here.

Unintentionally, got a slight sun-tan.

I am delighted that my house-sitting-bloggers have said everything I would want to say: a careful concoction of geek, Jewish, what's going on in Israel (that I am getting in a totally fragmentary way here)... thank you all.

I feel like... there's a lot more I'd like to say, but I'm out of practice, communicating on a moment-by-moment basis.

More, later.