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Sunday 25 January

I had a fallow day yesterday with Ariadne, Tony her husband and Jonas here for the weekend. Just how electrifying and globalising blogging can be is the news that Carne Ross has emailed me from New York to say he'd read my bit on COMPLICIT and forwarded it to the playwright Joe Sutton who is a friend, 2 days after I'd seen the play (which incidentally is powerfully acted by Richard Dreyfuss and David Suchet).Well I never.



On 20 January my poet friend Michael Ware (who I originally met first when we were in the army together many many years ago and who indulges us with a freshly minted poem a day) wrote to express his enthusiasm for Obama's inauguration. So I wrote back to ask if it would inspire a poem. And pat today, with his full licence, comes back this: