2022-08-31 (Wednesday)

A few days later in San Francisco I rented inline skates, which I’d never tried before. I had to show my passport and the woman looked at it and said “I’m so sorry”.

I assumed there was a problem and I wouldn’t be able to hire the skates. But no.

“What? Oh, right. Yes, thanks.”

I do regret that, after leaving Burning Man, I didn’t buy one of the local papers from the box outside Denny’s, whose front page was split between a photo of the Man, and the Diana news.

25 years ago I was sitting in our woefully amateur camp at Burning Man with @mala, Angus and Pouneh, when a man wearing not much more than a top hat came and told us Brits that Diana had died. It was a while before we could confirm the news on a radio.

I was excited to read in the Guardian today that a 1970s TV adaptation of Sartre's 'The Road To Power' has been on BBC FOUR this summer. I didn't even know it existed.

I was less excited to discover the early episodes have already disappeared off @BBCiPlayer. Nnnggghhh 😖

SO YOU SEE AN ANCIENT WOODLAND ISN'T AN UNTOUCHED COLLECTION OF OLD TREES, IT'S ACTUALLY DEFINED BY UNDISTURBED SOIL PROFILES AND IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURES FROM PAST INDUSTRY AND MANAGEMENT. BUT THEY'RE STILL IRREPLACEABLE, SO ONCE LOST THEY CAN'T BE BROUGHT BA-