You do not want to know what's in my notes.

My notes are so mental.

So I've started writing down sometimes when people really, really annoy me.

And I just have to get it out of my system.

So I just write it down in note form.

And then I go back to it.

It's just like, you are such a bitch.

I'm sorry. Quite often I just write things on my hand and they're extremely hygiene.

And they've just gone, absolutely gone.

But now I'm going to do parish notices at the beginning.

I have just in the interest of transparency, just tried to do parish notices at the beginning. I have, just in the interest of transparency,

just tried to do parish notices, but I got the first one wrong.

So this is Take 2, and we will be discussing our Book Club book,

which is Just Kids by Patty Smith, probably towards the mid to end of November.

So if you'd like to get a crack on with reading that, it comes

as absolutely no surprise that Jane and I are struggling to finish it, actually. Have you read it?

Yeah, I read it when it came out. It's only a slim volume. I gobbled it up. Slim volume? Yeah.

No. It's got a tiny font and it's easily over 300 pages. I consider that a slim volume these days. It's a dense work for me. I mean, maybe it's just different. Did you like it? Yeah, I loved it. But I read it when it came out. I was living in New York, you know, it spoke to me. I think the living in New York would be very key to it because I have found the endless descriptions of Brooklyn and...

You pulled a face when you said Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg. What kind of a face

accompanies that? Williamsburg's lovely. Brooklyn's lovely. Manhattan's lovely. We welcome

all parts of that great city. I can understand how you'd be more engaged in there, but I found the descriptions of

their drug taking and the different places that they lived and what they were wearing and stuff

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