One of Helen Simpson's new stories, that appears in her climate-change collection In-Flight Entertainment, imagines a diarist in 2040 looking back with wistful memories of life in the age of fossil fuels. The things that are missing from 2040 (according to this review) include:
condoms, iTunes, Google, hot water, open fridges full of tiger prawns and fillet steak.
Country diary: I’ve become a taxi service for the ladybirds | Charlie Elder
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*West Dartmoor, Devon:* They must have got into my house last autumn, and
now they’re emerging in a wonderful variety of markings and spot numbers
Ladybi...
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