The thief of time ...


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… is procrastination of course. Or the principle of never putting off till tomorrow what you can put off till next week. Or better still, next month. In a word, manãna - used in the sense that tomorrow never comes. We received an email yesterday from my brother in the antipodes, confirming that he and his wife are now pensioners, having both retired from full-time employment last month. Now, he says, he can finally get busy on all those little jobs around the house that he has promised to do “when he got around to it.” I was surprised that he used that actual phrase. Surely he must remember the joke that circulated in offices and schools all those years ago. The old ones are best, so here on the left is the famous token, to be presented to anyone who has made such promises.]

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