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Posted on January 7, 2026

The Fire Doors

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The Dublin Castle, Camden

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Small venue, sold out and pretty packed

🔗 They're among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

_Saturday 3rd January 2026_ 🎵

Posted on January 7, 2026

Freud Museum

20 Maresfield Gardens, London

> The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst.

_Visited Saturday 3rd January 2026_

Posted on January 7, 2026

Currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚

About to start Book 6 of _The Odyssey_. Progressing – at a fairly slow pace that suits me 😄 – alongside the Instant Classics Podcast Book Club episodes. Emily Wilson’s translation is a pleasure to read.

> Tell me about a complicated man.