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a friend in paris writes:
"Hello from the front line.
"thanks very much for the encouragement from the disintegrating homeland.
"we're all ok. A and I are displaying stiff lip fortitude amid all the silly gilets.
"When I agreed to go and meet her at the Farrow and Ball shop in the Marais on Saturday afternoon, I was still dazed from playing the entire 90 minutes of a football match and did not realise that the showroom would be slap bang at the angle of a police rallying point and a cluster of cafes in the jaune zone.
"When I arrived each battalion was surveying the other. The cops priming themselves to be robust and the fops fussing over their Saturday demo look.
"I did think at one point that this might not be the place to linger especially with a bag full of kit and an inability to run.
"I did think also that I should perhaps be getting my notebook out.
"In the end we got the inchyra blue (289) and ammonite (274) testers and walked back home.
"we missed the charge of the mounted police and the violence. though it would have been really flash to use opened testers as missiles.
"more anger is planned for the coming weekend but i will be in london listening to my mum sing carols with her choir. perhaps mrs may will be singing with the angels by then."