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You were reading Down on the Farm By Charles Stross. Resuming.

Ah, the joy of summer: here in the south-east of England it’s the season of mosquitoes, sunburn, and water shortages. I’m a city boy, so you can add stifling pollution to the list as a million outwardly mobile families start their Chelsea tractors and race to their holiday camps. And that’s before we consider the hellish environs of the Tube (far more literally hellish than anyone realizes, unless they’ve looked at a Transport for London journey planner and recognized the recondite geometry underlying the superimposed sigils of the underground map).

With thanks to Tor and Charlie for the creativity.... Please put down your copyright lawyers; no evil was intended. Please take this as a recommendation to get your own Laundry, and find your own Halting State.