To clear out my cupboard, boring, to lose half a stone, boring boring, OK, a whole stone, I know, don't go on about it, to get rid of my Amstrad PCW and the two Victorian printers and the three prehistoric fax machines, yes I will, yes I will ring Camden, you told me that already, but mostly in 2011 my ambition will be to track down every letter and postcard that John Lennon ever wrote. Over and out.

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