Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window

‘Think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour / Drinking milkshakes cold and looooong! / Smiling and waving and looking so fine / Don’t think you knew you were in this song.’ — David Bowie, 'Five Years'

Rev Heads, Smartie Cars, and The Snowball of Amnesia

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SATURDAY

This is the first Christmas I’ll have spent in London since 19…