
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2022
The LRB Podcast
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The Year of the Anemone
I used to love anemones. Once they had in Leeds market for 50p, today they are much legier than they were. I am a messy eater, messy altogether, Rupert would say and getting more so by the day. It must have been around the time of the standoff between Boris Johnson and the Supreme Court that my mental capacity was tested. The young doctor in A&E at UCH asked me what the word was for closing down Parliament, i.e. proroging - which I got in one.
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