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On Chess and Cakes

September 24, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The doorbell rang. Standing there, masked, was a highly ranked chess player. He was delivering a plated lemon drizzle cake. Almost surreal except that his very good wife had made it for us as a diversion from worrying about our daughter going through surgery at the time the cake arrived.

I searched my iPhone database for today’s date 0924
Dublin: Storm Coming 2010
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: baking, chess, david eagleman, encyclopaedia britannica, ioc, judit polgár, photos, street photography

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