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Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling: is this a hangover – or just what being 60 feels like?

Tim Dowling is 60 graphic

I wake up some time after 10am, to find myself alone in a strange bedroom with a terrible sense of foreboding. I listen out for voices, but I can hear nothing apart from waves breaking on rocks.

It occurs to me that I am in Greece. Outside the bedroom I find a set of open doors framing a sparkling sea. Beyond them is a small balcony. Somewhere below it, I can hear my wife amusing people. She is deploying the special, highly inaccurate accent she uses to imitate one of our children.

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