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Sounds like great fun … and a real challenge to the digestive system. I’m jealous. Much busyness on the publishing front, but I reckon you’re past caring about that at the moment. Something for when you get back, p’raps. Have you eaten a guinea pig yet? Cheers, Rob.

Don’t beat yourself up. Heaps of people are doing it. I saw a hippy cafe selling ‘plastic-lined’ paper bags that were ’sweatshop free’, ‘old-growth free’ but ‘hand-printed’ by ‘local Taiwanese’. This is very common, don’t sweat it.

Was it McBreakfast, or standard menu?

Standard menu, baby. Available alllll day, praise be to cholesterol. I’d never imagined such a thing existed and then there it was, in my mouth. (Feel free to take that out of context.)

Yeah, but I specialise in beating other people up (verbally), so I should certainly cop it myself, shouldn’t I? (In other news, your story is hilarious. Like the fact that the same ‘local handicrafts’ are on sale in Bangkok, Lima, and Byron Bay.)

No guinea pigs as yet. Something about them just doesn’t scream ‘tasty’. And they seem to be only for tourists anyway (read, four times the price of normal meals). When I can get a delicious pasta dish for that much less, I’m going alfredo. I did eat alpaca though.

Any publishing news is good news – do send me through the updates. Interested to see how your prospective new arrangements turn out.