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Saturday. Wounded but still breathing.

In one’s cups at Ayr on the final day

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Nick Boyd
Sep 19, 2026
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Disaster. A major flash, a smell of scalded squid and a dead pc with, please God, just a burned-out power unit. Sans eyes, sans brain, sans data, sans everything, bar this six-year-old Android tablet.

This, however, simply presents us with a challenge and not one we will shirk. Now is the time to reawaken the spirit of Churchill. Never in the field of… on the beaches, in the office, and in the pub we shall… then imitate the actions of the spawn of Ed Chamberlain and Circa Starmer; our hearts go out to the scalded squid, and we’re sorry on behalf of computer manufacturers everywhere, and rest assured, lessons will be learned…

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