🏛️ Politics Mar 25, 2026 · Nicholas Lezard

Why am I so healthy?

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How long have you gone without a fridge? I can tell you exactly how long I have: since 1 March, and counting. (I write these words 17 days later.) After the electrician, with humiliating ease, had restored my electricity, I replaced the fuse in the plug, plugged in the fridge, heard the whirring noise of the fridge motor start up, said “Yay!” to no one in particular – and then the lights went out again. So it seems as though the fridge is at fault, and will have to be replaced. Good: it was alwa

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