Looking for support, I showed it to a friend of mine – something of an millennial sage; a man who spends a lot of time on "overheard in supermarket" Facebook groups; a man who goes to Brent Cross for fun.
Or, as recently happened to a colleague of mine, something that has worked for 20 years will just stop working, for unknown reasons.
He was a socialist colleague in a constituency next to mine for something like 17 years so we campaigned together and I well remember traversing the country with him during the miner's strike in 1984/85.
But, while he shares Coogan's ear for precise language and deft characterisation, he's also got the ability to mine sensitivity and pathos, something that has taken the older man a lot of effort to acquire.
I remember looking at the report and realizing that there were all of these similar genes in all of these different animals and thinking: "Maybe a careful reading of the papers associated with the sequences most similar to mine will tell me something about my own gene".
DAN PEARSON was working in northern Peru two years ago with his stepson Brian Horsely, supplying gear and food to mining companies, when something caught his eye.
But perhaps, if one's own academic parents have been targets for assassination, the concept of safety on campus holds something different to mine.
The inclination of readers to mine novels for autobiography is something Lessing has dealt with before, in the second volume of her autobiography, "Walking in the Shade".
But his front foot would have been doing something very similar to mine.
But something wonderful was happening to mine.
Natalie and Ruth, if Jackie or Mildred were around, is that something you would have wanted to mine?
