Friends, Bloggers, Internet users, lend me your ears! The moment has arrived when the truth shall be finally revealed to you. Yes, my young padawans, my review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day is upon us, as you have waited long enough. In truth, waiting two weeks isn’t that bad, but the time frame could have been worse.

This juggernaut of a movie is smashing the box office, having earned, at the time of writing this well-read blog, US$1.843 billion, which still just boggles my mind.¹ So, let’s follow the template I have set for myself and see where it leads. If you missed the preview, you can find it here.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened in New Zealand on 30th July, although I only managed to see it last week. It was another typical cold, dark winter Tuesday night at the only cinema in town. Armed with a pre-bought ticket and with expensive snacks from the counter, I was ready to be entertained, and so were 22 other people.

There was a trailer for the new Jason Statham movie, Mutiny, where I think he is trying to kill a cargo ship. You can’t go wrong with a Statham movie for a date night. Anyway, before I dissect Marvel Studios’ 38th film, I want to discuss an epiphany I had after the film. As I was making my way home, it occurred to me that the way I consume movies at the cinema has changed.

I go to the cinema for roughly two different reasons now. The first one is when my wife and I, or just me, take UMC1 and UMC2, which is essentially a family event. In that regard, I’m there to watch whatever crazy-arse movie the boys want to see, usually in the school holidays. There’s no preview to write, and certainly no review, apart from the debrief with the boys about their favourite moments in the movie.

The second reason I’m at the cinema is now to review a movie. This means instead of sitting in my seat waiting for the film to start, and just being happy for the experience, I’m finding myself remembering my preview questions and preparing to store various scenes of the movie into useless parts of my mind. This has transformed my cinematic experience into a venture of criticism.

Whether this is a new positive or negative aspect of my personality, I’ll have to wait for God to fill me in. And with that delightful notion, let’s go over the rules of the review.

1.) Please be aware there will be spoilers concerning the movie, so proceed with extreme anxiety and caution; even after 2,000 years.

2.) The aim of my reviews are not to rip apart the subject or trash it. If I liked the subject enough to watch it, then I’ll give my honest (possibly biased) opinion.

3.) I’m not a professional critic, so I’m not going to dive into deeper concepts and themes, or the art of filmmaking. I’m just a geek; always have been, and always will be.

With the introduction now complete, along with Obi-Wan’s failure; and since we’re not here to watch Count Binface dance, let’s get on with the review!

Because it’s rare for me to deviate from this course of action, the first step is to discuss whether I liked the film or not, and as usual, I did. The MCU can still entertain me after 18 years, which means I’m still invested in it, as well as everybody’s favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. To be honest, I’ll always give a damn about ‘Ol Web-head.

Things I liked:

Following the plan, I’ll fire these off in no special order, as I don’t want my OCD to be that intense.

Right off the bat was the introduction by Tom Holland at the start of the movie. I can’t remember if I have ever seen an actor talking directly to the audience to thank them for watching the movie, as well as pointing out that the entire production crew have pulled out all the stops to make the best film possible, because they love Peter Parker, just like us. It was cool.

And speaking of cool, I was impressed by Parker’s Spider-Man suit, because it looked…amazing and spectacular.² It looks quite comic-accurate, though to be fair, does it have to? The homage to Amazing Fantasy #15 was not lost on me either; it was…amazing.³

I liked the symmetry in the interactions between the characters. In No Way Home, Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker attempts to stop Tom Holland’s Peter Parker from killing Willem Dafoe’s Norman Osborn. This mirrors Holland’s Peter Parker trying to prevent Sadie Sink’s Jean Grey from killing Tramell Tillman’s Bill Metzger. It’s an interesting form of compasssion, no matter how you want to describe it.

The parallels between the two scenes were strong, with Parker learning his lesson and trying to make sure Jean Grey doesn’t make the mistake of killing Tillman. It’s one of Parker’s strongest traits to uphold his own personal belief system, to himself, the world, and to his friends and allies, like the Punisher, and now, Jean Grey.

Now, let’s discuss Jean Grey. I understand that with Disney’s acquisition of Fox, they finally got the movie rights back for the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Rather than quickly stuffing these characters into movies, they bided their time, which was clever. They did this by introducing the Fantastic Four as being from another universe, and it looks like the X-Men, or at the earliest, mutants, will come from the main universe; not counting the X-Men Fox Universe.

So we have now been introduced to at least two mutants, with Jean Grey, with the first being Namor. How Marvel is going to continue to introduce mutants in the main universe remains to be seen, although Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will deal with the Fox X-Men.

It will be great to follow Jean’s heroic journey through the MCU, because when we first met her, she was already an adult in X-Men, as Famke Janssen. Having her on a quest to find her sister, Sara, a forgotten Marvel character, was key to seeing how loyal she can be, but also how powerful she can really be.

I can’t be sure about it, but I was wondering: when Damage Control was running the experiments on Sara and Jean, it gave me the idea that maybe the computer programme they were running was an early or prototype version of Cerebro. I will laugh and laugh if I’m correct about that.

Another thing that impressed me was Scorpion’s fighting style, as in controlling his tail like a limb, similar to Doctor’s Octopus’ arms. When he was fighting Spider-Man, it was fantastic to see him use his tail like that, as it was extremely smart and creative.

I also can’t be the only person to notice the similarities between Parker being accidentally shot while saving someone by the Punisher and the Death of Spider-Man storyline in Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 from 2011, where Ultimate Peter Parker is accidentally shot by the Ultimate Punisher while saving Ultimate Captain America.

Yes, it’s true: Ultimate Punisher did not kill him, as Parker returned home to fight the Ultimate Green Goblin, aka Norman Osborn. And yes, Ultimate Parker indeed died defeating Ultimate Osborn, but he did so with the bullet wound from the Ultimate Punisher, so at worst, the Ultimate Punisher aided in Ultimate Parker’s death, since he couldn’t fight the Ultimate Green Goblin at 100%. Comic books- who would read them?

I enjoyed Parker’s and Frank Castle’s relationship too, but also their performances, along with everybody else’s. Obviously, Holland and Zendaya’s relationship is jumping from behind the camera to in front of it, but it still works. Mark Ruffalo, Florence Pugh, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, and Jon Bernthal all understood the assignments and were fantastic.

I’ve mentioned this before, but since I don’t have Disney+, I have no idea what’s been happening in the MCU TV shows. That being the case, I don’t know if Damage Control has been seen in the shows or not. Regardless, it was great to see them in the movie, though it seems like their cinematic portrayal and their comic counterparts are different, with vastly different company objectives. Still, it was nice to see them, as they’re an overlooked and underrated corner of the Marvel Universe.

Things I disliked:

I realise this film is getting attention through vast amounts of money and great acting performances, along with positive praise among critics and fans, but that doesn’t mean it’s invulnerable to criticism.

I may have missed this point, as there was a lot of information fired at us, in addition to being revealed, but when we left Parker at the end of No Way Home, Parker had moved into a new apartment; but when Brand New Day rolled around, Parker was in a completely different apartment.

That in itself is not a problem, but what is a problem is that, to the best of my knowledge, the film never clears up what Parker does outside of the mask. I suppose something in the film clears it up; it could be referred to as his university- maybe Empire State University, but it’s not clear. What exactly does Parker do? Does he study or work or both?

Because this leads us to another question: what does Parker do for money? Does he have an income stream, and what is it? Does he live off money earned as Spider-Man? Is he, in fact, a part-time photographer for the Daily Bugle, or does he have another job? How does he afford to live in that apartment?

One of the key reasons Peter Parker has been so relatable to readers is that he has shared many problems that are grounded in reality, namely paying his bills, but also helping with Aunt May’s bills. Of course, in this universe, Aunt May is dead, but Parker does not seem to have any money issues that I saw. Why is that?

Another thing to add to this issue is the fact that his suit is back to being powered by AI. At the end of No Way Home, Parker had opened a new chapter for himself, with a non-tech suit, via a homemade fabric suit. Years later, he seems to have upgraded the suit, forgetting the lessons he learnt in all of the previous films. He’s become the new Tony Stark, and I feel that’s not his role.

When advertising a movie, Marvel can sometimes be a little deceptive with its trailers and press releases. An example of this in Brand New Day was information released about Tombstone, Boomerang, Tarantula, The Hand, and Ramrod, and I thought it was all true.

To my disappointment, Tombstone was in the film for roughly two minutes, though an argument could be made for only one minute. While the trailers featured Spider-Man fighting Boomerang and Tarantula, the movie’s footage featured the identical footage as the trailer. Basically, the amount of time that you saw of Boomerang and Tarantula in the trailers was the same in the movie. As for Ramrod, he didn’t feature in the trailers, but he had the same amount of screen time as the other two.

I do have some issues around the Punisher. Again, having not seen the MCU TV shows, how can the Punisher be walking the streets, or in a Damage Control building with agents and a hospital, AND NOT BE ARRESTED?

How in the hell did he walk out of the Damage Control without being arrested, considering Metzger and his agents were staring at him? How can the Punisher, one of the largest serial killers in the United States of America, just walk into a hospital with a bleeding Spider-Man, be allowed to stay in a hospital room, and slip out without being notified to the police and not be arrested? How?

And speaking about the Punisher, how does he finance his war on crime? Where does the money come from to buy these powerful guns? How did he get his Battle Van fixed and repaired so quickly after it was badly damaged the previous day, or does he just have a spare Battle Van lying around?

As for the hospital scene, at no point did the film address the fact that multiple hospital staff would have seen Peter’s face, since his mask was removed. Regardless of whether they know his identity or not, they have seen his face, which means supervillains and criminals could capture and torture the information from the hospital staff, as well as securing footage from the hospital’s surveillance.

I also feel terrible for bringing this up, but Jean’s hypocrisy was farcical. At the climax of the film, when she has Metzger under her control, she complains about how evil he is and that he’s a murderer, but she has completely skipped over her own actions. With Jean mentally controlling people, she has destroyed careers, cars, and buildings, along with getting people arrested, in addition to injuring people, with the possibility of killing one person who got hit by a bus. Bruce Banner is now locked up in a psychiatric hospital because of her.

In her speech, she accepted no responsibility for her actions, especially for creating a psionic field. Who knows how many people were killed when she did that? At some point, Jean will need to own up to her actions.

I think I have mentioned this before in the Thunderbolts* and Captain America: Brave New World reviews, but when something like a psionic field appears in New York, of all places, why is it that no extra superheroes turn up to help? Not a single one? If the MCU is interconnected as they say it is, why don’t these events mean anything to the world, because nobody, absolutely nobody, from any superhuman team or government department arrived to lend a hand? Not even Daredevil?

To round it out, Parker’s transformation seemed to mean nothing. He solved the problem, but simply making friends? Does this mean that if Parker ever feels lonely or isolated again, he will revert to the “Spider” persona? Does he still have access to his organic webbing or not? I thought the resolution to this problem was rather weak.

So, what about my preview questions?

• Is having four different villains, Scorpion, Tombstone, Boomerang, and Tarantula, too many? Will they be working together? No, this was not like Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, or Spider-Man: No Way Home, where, wherever you looked, there was a villain. Like I said before, Boomerang, Tarantula, and also Ramrod had blink-and-miss-them cameos; Tombstone had two minutes at most, while Scorpion had the largest role. They were not working together.
• How will Black Widow be introduced in the movie? She was like an information consultant because Peter needed information about the person attacking Damage Control facilities.
• Will it be revealed how Peter has built a life out of thin air, considering Peter Parker does not exist? It was not explained or touched on at all.
• Will Ned start to turn against Peter or Spider-Man? In the film, there was no red flag to indicate his eventual betrayal.
• Does Matt Murdock/Daredevil or Kingpin make an appearance? Sadly, they were absent.
• Will Jean Grey be classified as a mutant? To the best of my knowledge, she was referred to as “special.”
• Will there be any form of early mutant legalisation? Nothing, but I wonder if Parker’s inhibitor will be the basis of the mutant collar inhibitor.
• Will the transformations Peter goes through be permanent? Totally unclear. Maybe he still has his organic webbing, but by the end, he’s back to his normal self; though he could revert under the wrong conditions, I think.
• Does Peter know Boomerang, outside of his mask? No idea, because Boomerang had no lines, and in the film for three seconds.
• What is the Hand doing in the film? They are reformed and working for Damage Control.
• Can we expect any other cameos, whether Avengers or X-Men? Apart from Black Widow and the Hulk, there was also the appearance of Detective Jean DeWolff. Does that mean Sin-Eater is coming?
• Will Bruce Banner be able to help Peter? He did after having a conversation about suppressing mutations.
• Is Morlun involved in the movie? Once again, sadly no.
• Will Peter try to break up Mary Jane’s relationship with her boyfriend? That’s a good question, because yes, he did. However, the end of the film revealed that they have become friends again.
• Will there be a Doctor Doom reference? If there was, I missed it. There was an end-credit scene that showed Peter was in space via the Spidey-Tracker, but that was it.

Overall, I enjoyed the film, and it just reaffirmed my belief in the character. Spider-Man is in my top five favourite Marvel characters, so to show my support, I have preordered Midnight Spider-Man #1, which is being released in October. I’ll have to let you know my thoughts about that issue, along with Midnight X-Men #1 and Midnight Fantastic Four #1.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a solid and entertaining movie. Anyway, don’t trust me; go watch it for yourself, so you can be the judge. Have you seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Please tell me your thoughts about it. I would love to know.

The next MCU movie is Avengers: Doomsday in December, which I will preview and review. However, the next preview/review will either be Clayface (my decision) or Wicker (my wife’s choice), whichever one is released first. Clayface is in my wheelhouse, but Wicker is not, but I’ll give it a go anyway; mainly because my wife thinks I can’t preview/review a romantic fantasy comedy. Challenge accepted!

Ok, that’s another blog for another week. Thanks once again for reading, following, and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me. Remember to walk your dog, read a banned book, follow Nigel Farage’s Parliamentary investigation, and I’ll see you next week, where we discuss the news from San Diego Comic-Con. It’s hard-hitting investigative journalism!

¹ Not The Juggernaut of course, because as Spider-Man knows all too well, nothing stops the Juggernaut!

² If anybody is clever enough to understand that reference, please let me know.

³ Sorry, its the last one.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here we are again, for the final time this Winter, for a movie preview/review. Yes, the Moirai, or should that be Disney, have decreed that I commit more time to this amazing venture, which, to my humble credit, I have gracefully said, “Sure, bro.”

The FIFA World Cup seems a distant memory, along with the first half of the Nations Championship, though the Clacton by-election is this week, so hopefully God has a sense of humour, and Nigel Farage will lose to Count Binface. Dreams are free, mate, dreams are free. I’ll mention the winner next week, so stay glued to New Zealand’s 5th least favourite website.

With all of that cool stuff out of the way, we need to discuss Spider-Man: Brand New Day. This hasn’t happened for a long time on this amazing account, but the film has been out since 30th July, and I’m just releasing a preview. However, just to lay your fears to rest, I’ll be watching the film tomorrow at 8 pm, since I’ve secured my ticket for the screening. Old habits are hard to break.

Before I stumble into another awful attempt at alliteration and previewing a superhero movie, we need to discuss the elephant in the room, or should that be the $1 billion at the box office. I’m never going to do this again, as in wait so long to write a preview of a movie, when it’s already been released, generated $1 billion, as well as trying to avoid memes, reviews, and posts about the film.

Never again; it’s been too awkward and stressful. It also means some things that I would have asked in my preview questions have already been answered.

I have tried so hard to block out information about the film, but some information has bled through, though it’s to be expected. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been on people’s radar for a while. It’s no secret that the film is the 38th entry in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), with the 39th being Avengers: Doomsday, due in theatres in December 2026. I’ll be nearly on holiday for that one, so we’ll see how that pans out. This is a classic example of a first-world problem.

Anyway, Spider-Man: Brand New Day gives us the first appearance of Peter Parker since Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021. Of course, the MCU has kept chugging out cinematic content since then, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Marvels, Deadpool & Wolverine, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps; with The Marvels being the only MCU film I have not seen, and its proved difficult to rent. Another first-world problem in action.

The cast is Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson (Zendaya), Jean Grey (Sadie Sink), Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon), Frank Castle / Punisher (Jon Bernthal), Yelena Belova / Black Widow (Florence Pugh), and Bruce Banner / Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); though there are others, I need to move things along.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (who previously directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, who both have co-written other MCU films like Spider-Man: Homecoming, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Its armed with a budget of an estimated US$225 million, roughly the same as The Avengers’ budget from 2012.

So, sit back and relax, while we continue our dive into Phase Six with Spider-Man: Brand New Day! Let’s do it!

Am I looking forward to watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day?

Yes, yes, of course, the answer is yes. As I said before, the last time we saw Peter was in Spider-Man: No Way Home, not counting 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Now, I’ve mentioned this several times when writing these world-famous previews, but I don’t have Disney +, so I haven’t seen any of the MCU TV shows.

This means I don’t know what’s been happening with Moon Knight, Daredevil, Wonder Man, but more importantly, for the context of the movie, Hulk and the Punisher. I really have no idea what they have been doing, other than being green and shooting people.

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has become a vital cog in the MCU machine, mainly because we have watched Peter grow up, secure some victories, but also suffer defeats, and we’ve been there along the way. It’s almost like checking in on an old mate that you don’t get to see often.

The title, Brand New Day, obviously sets up, to me at least, a possible opening chapter in a new Spider-Man film trilogy, featuring the word, Day, similar to Home, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, I have been known to be wrong. From time to time.

Comic book fans will recognise Brand New Day as the follow-up storyline to one of Marvel’s worst Spider-Man storylines, One More Day, though the Clone Saga and Sins Past could give One More Day a run for its money. I remember that as soon as I had read all of the issues in One More Day, I sold it as soon as I could, because I didn’t want it under the same roof as me. I hated it.

Brand New Day was a reset for the Spider-Man titles, with Peter being single and living his best life with new friends and enemies, after he made a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May from death, by giving up his marriage to Mary Jane, by allowing Mephisto to remove it from reality. I believe the thinking at the time was to align the Spider-Man from the comics to the Spider-Man from the films, namely, Sam Raimi’s trilogy, and to make him single and younger. Again, I hated it.

Having Mephisto remove people’s knowledge of Peter and Mary Jane’s marriage from reality was lifted from One More Day, and used in No Way Home, but instead of Mephisto, it was Doctor Strange removing people’s knowledge of Peter being Spider-Man. Comics and movies, what a deadly combination.

What is the movie about?

According to Marvel.com, the premise is this:

It’s a BRAND NEW DAY for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn’t remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves—a powerful villain no one can even see.

What can we expect?

The running time is 145 minutes, which places it roughly around the same time as The Avengers, from way back in 2012. I saw that film three times at the cinema, what a geek. I’m not 100% sure how much time has passed since Spider-Man: No Way Home, especially because the MCU is a bit funky. Still, with research, it says that No Way Home was set in 2024, and Brand New Day is in 2028.

From the trailers, Peter is going through a transformation reminiscent of “The Other” storyline, which appeared in Spider-Man comics as a crossover between the titles. In it, Peter is pursued by a freaky, universe-hopping life-force vampire named Morlun, who defeats him, transforms, and is reborn. It will be interesting to see how much of “The Other” is used in the movie.

From the trailers, it appears that Peter will be able to create organic webbing, similar to Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man (Earth-96283) and Spider-Man Noir (Earth-90214/90214B). This is a great reminder that I still need to watch Spider-Noir, because it looks awesome.

I think one of the biggest things to remember before you see the film is the fact that Doctor Strange removed the planet’s knowledge of Peter Parker being Spider-Man, but also that Peter Parker even exists at all, which includes from Mary Jane/MJ and Ned.

I can only imagine that a large chunk of the film will handle Peter trying to reestablish his relationships with them. Will this film lay the seeds of Ned’s ultimate evolution, turning him into the Hobgoblin, thus continuing the trend of Peter’s BFF becoming a supervillain and trying to kill him?

As a side note, it would be extremely difficult for Peter to live, considering there would be no record of him even existing; he’s a ghost. He would have to go and get official documents stating who he was, as well as proof that he’s a US citizen; otherwise, he would be deported. Also, try to imagine the levels of madness it would take if you knew lots of information about different people and the world, but nobody, and I mean nobody, knew anything about you.

The trailers also give the impression that Peter and Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, have some sort of working relationship, since, as Spider-Man, Peter calls him “Frank” in a plea for help. However, it’s unclear whether Peter has revealed his identity to Frank. I could be wrong about what I’ve seen, but it seems like Frank and Peter are acting like brothers, as in supporting each other, as well as bickering and arguing. Watching them debate the morality of killing criminals would be interesting. It also suggests that Dr Bruce Banner has not remembered who Peter is, so their relationship would be awkward as well.

With the known villains, Marvel has been very loose with these details, considering the amount of public knowledge of the characters, because of the trailers and toys, like the plague of Ooshies that have infected the world. These include Scorpion (last seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming), Tombstone, Boomerang, and Tarantula, along with The Hand.

The Hand provides me with a great transition point, since, to the best of my understanding, they have featured in the MCU TV shows. Similar to the Disney + Star Wars shows, there is so much I have missed with the MCU shows that sometimes I feel that there’s no point getting Disney + because of the massive back catalogue. Like I said, sometimes.

Before the movie was released, there was speculation as to Sadie Sink’s role, so when the trailer was released, people started to guess the identity of the entity that was somehow taking over people or possessing them. The internet is a fertile place for growing conspiracy theories, and for once, the conspiracy theorists were correct that the mystery villain was, in fact, Jean Grey. It’s a weird feeling knowing a key piece of hidden information about a movie, before you watch it, considering you have a ticket in your hand.

Since Jean Grey is involved, my questions about the X-Men, or at least mutants, will be discussed. Hopefully, we will see some fantastic fight scenes, along with powerful emotional scenes, with Peter trying to reconnect with people. Who knows?

Do I have concerns?

One day, I’ll answer this question by saying I have no concerns, but it’s not today. That being the case, here are my concerns about a film that has earned US$1.6 billion at the box office:

• Is having four different villains, Scorpion, Tombstone, Boomerang, and Tarantula, too many? Will they be working together?
• How will Black Widow be introduced in the movie?
• Will it be revealed how Peter has built a life out of thin air, considering Peter Parker does not exist?
• Will Ned start to turn against Peter or Spider-Man?
• Does Matt Murdock/Daredevil or Kingpin make an appearance?
• Will Jean Grey be classified as a mutant?
• Will there be any form of early mutant legalisation?
• Will the transformations Peter goes through be permanent?
• Does Peter know Boomerang, outside of his mask?
• What is the Hand doing in the film?
• Can we expect any other cameos, whether Avengers or X-Men?
• Will Bruce Banner be able to help Peter?
• Is Morlun involved in the movie?
• Will Peter try to break up Mary Jane’s relationship with her boyfriend?
• Will there be a Doctor Doom reference?

As always, there’s probably going to be some questions to ask after the film. Are you planning on watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day, or have you already seen it? As always, please let me know.

I’m sorry if this preview is a tad shorter than usual, but I just want to watch the film while eating and drinking vastly over-priced items. And that’s another blog for another week.

Last Thursday, it was -5 °C at 6 am, which is just madness to me, because I’ve been going to bed wearing a hoodie and a beanie. I want to wear my dressing gown and slippers to work to be warm, but I’m sure it would be frowned upon.

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