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I’m not getting unfit or older - it’s the world which is wearing me down.

My commute to work involves me walking about a quarter of a mile all in and that’s using public transport. I thought Londoners were supposed to walk three miles a day or something.

Also, having young kids doesn’t exactly lend itself to physical excertion or leave me with the money or time to join a gym. I’m busy. I’m busy as hell, but I’m not hugely active.

As for ageing, let’s face it - the world reveres youth. No one is eighty in their dreams.

I can easily blame the world for me getting older. What’s the deal with the hair growing in my ears? I’m thirty four and this is a recent and alarming development.

Naturally I look at recent changes in diet and lifestyle, and there are very few things I do differently now than I did five years ago, particularly where my ears are concerned. So I’m assuming it must have something to MP3 files.

I have deduced that the files themselves must somehow stimulate the aural follicles. For years I listened to a walkman or radio, then a personal CD player - all with headphones - and there was never a problem, so it must be MP3s.

I may have also discovered a cure for baldness, but on a purely vain and selfish note, that doesn’t concern me right now.

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Three Word Story

“You don’t understand your power over the common man,” said Alistair Campbell.

The words seemed to echo endlessly around their cell. Digging a tunnel had proved fruitless and oddly phallic. Finding a vein had been the laborious task ahead, but they opted to forge ahead while singing “We Are The Champions”.

It wasn’t until they stopped singing that they realised they were never going to see Gdansk. In the dark, damp silence, the candles sputtered out. “Bugger,” said

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