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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

the last book I read

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World's End by TC Boyle. It's 1968 and Walter van Brunt is doing some standard carefree hippy shit: caning a few beers at a local b...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

walking back to happiness WOOPBAH et cetera

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It was our tenth wedding anniversary at the weekend so Hazel and I managed to wangle a quick break away (specifically, away from the kids, ...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

your cabbage awaits

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But what, you'll have been thinking, has been going on in the spicy noodle arena? We don't seem to have heard about that for a whil...
Friday, June 11, 2021

the last book I read

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The Other by Thomas Tryon. The small town of Pequot Landing, Connecticut, seems like an idyllic place for a family to live, especially two ...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2021

a phosphate worse than death

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Every day, as I was saying only recently on Twitter , is a school day. And so I'd like to share with you a thing I learnt today as some ...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

putting down some routes

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As well as traumatising and maiming small children by throwing balls at them and menacing them with bits of wood, the easing of lockdown ru...

live well, bat often, field much

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It's been delightful, over the past few weekends, as COVID-19 lockdown restrictions ease, to be able to meet up with extended family aga...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

running for president

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A couple of follow-up observations on earlier posts: Firstly, I notice that politicians continue to embarrass themselves by attempting to i...
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Friday, May 28, 2021

processing middle names correctly is my middle name

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The Tears Of The Giraffe  post reminded me of a thing I mentioned on Twitter a while back: the difficulty of accurately categorising (in ter...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

the last book I read

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Tears Of The Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith. Precious Ramotswe is a woman of unusual talents. She runs her own detective agency in Gabor...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

the last book I read

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Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Nazneen was born in fairly unpromising circumstances in a Bangladeshi village in the late 1960s, and, being prema...
Monday, April 26, 2021

the last book I read

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Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. Adam Gordon. He's a poet. And he doesn't know it! No, actually he totally does know it, b...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

saramago, saramagoing, saramagone

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You may recall that after the death of John le Carré in December 2020 I did a bit of retrospective rearranging of the curse list as a coupl...
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