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As I get older, my grasp on this world begins to loosen. Saturday. 10.30 pm: Off to the Museum of Brands, at Ladbooke Grove. To my mind, it was less about brands and branding, in the contemporary sense of that term, than brands in the old fashioned sense: being, the companies that made things. The ‘Museum of Stuff’ might have…

The past, it seems to be, now recedes far more quickly than ever it did, while the future approaches far more slowly and deliberately. 9.15 am: Aberystwyth’s railway station was resplendent, Arcadian – summoning a vision of a world beyond the tawdry and mundane: shot-through with glory and grace. Our rail service under the new provider is riddled with disruptions,…