Day 81

This Is 81

Sari Botton | Oldster | 11th June 2025

Interview with the writer Jon Carroll about age and ageing. Interesting throughout. "I refuse to vegetate, to lose interest in things, to let my curiosity atrophy. It’s a danger that we all face. It’s not an unreal temptation. How do you fight it? You talk. You think. You speculate. My granddaughter, who is 23, comes over here to hang out, not because we asked her to help but because she enjoys it" (3,000 words)

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A Day In The Life Of A Bottle Collector

Giulia Gotti | Eurozine | 13th June 2025

The annual Roskilde Festival is so big that for a week it becomes Denmark's fourth largest city. It has its own secondary economy based on exchanging trash for cash under the Danish refund system. Bottle collectors, mostly from Romania and West Africa, travel to the festival for this purpose. They pay for admission so they can clean up what others discard. There are tensions and turf wars, too (4,300 words)