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The other side of an absence of sense
“One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.” So begins The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante. The book chronicles what follows for those left behind,...
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A word from our sponsors #9
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What I Find When I Look In My Inbox
I hope you‘ve enjoyed your journey to personalisation so far the know-how and confidence to successfully integrate partners invite you to experience the power There’s too much networking to be had...
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Person/a
Friend of the blog Tim has written a great post about the distinction between his written personality and his personality in real life. You should go away and read his thoughts rather than mine. Tim...
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A word from our sponsors #12
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From The Top
Just a quick heads-up that all-round great guy and fantastic writer Steve Harris has a new novel in the works that he is hoping to fund via Kickstarter. If you happen to have ten quid to spare you...
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Any tense/eventual ruins
A couple of quotations. “My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there...
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Blurry self-portrait in a trendy craft beer bar
Trendy bar. Not sure on cost so drinking halves. That sort of place. Get my coins mixed up, so he has to return for the rest, then when that’s sorted the change is 6p and they are out of change and...
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Making up our lives – gardening, writing and “My Roots” by Monty Don
Recently I’ve heard a fair few people talk about that old curse May You Live In Interesting Times. And Interesting may be one of the more polite adjectives I might think of when thinking of 2016. And...
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Some views from some trains
I’ve spent a lot of time on trains over the past year. I’ve covered quite a lot of England on those journeys. I imagine there have already been many pieces written about travelling England by train,...
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Taking Requests
Hello everyone. I thought it might be fun to ask for some requests. What would you like me to write about? You can just offer a word, or a title for a post, or supply a detailed break-down of what you...
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Old radio boxes
I’m ready for the autumn. Rainy days in late fall are convenient days to remodel old garments or dye them, before storing for the winter. I’m ready for the crisp cold light of the morning. The comfort...
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The world behind them
They just want to be in a place where they have the world behind them, and before them nothing but emptiness. W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn A few weeks back we went on a camping holiday, down to...
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700
700 is the natural number following 699. 700 is the natural number preceding 701. 700 is the sum of four consecutive prime numbers, 167 + 173 + 179 + 181. I’m not sure if this has any mathematical...
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street/library
There is a library I visit which is in the bowels of a big corporate building. You have to go down several flights of stairs, or take the lift, to enter. Libraries feel like an escape from the real...
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The same thing
I spend too much time looking at commons images. The images you can use and share without worrying about copyright or payment. They can improve a piece of writing and can sometimes offer an...
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Take care because we care
Eyeball Cards: The Art Of British CB Radio Culture by William Hogan and David Titlow offers a visual history of a particularly esoteric phenomenon, the production of “eyeball cards” CB radio...
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Everything here is made from love and dedicated to memory
In 2013 a blog post appeared from two former students of the writer W.G. Sebald. They had returned to their notes and had gathered a list of remarks and tips from their teacher. Panorama, from the...
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A beery firmament
As I worked on my review of Dušan Šarotar’s Panorama, I gathered quotations and I gathered reflections, and did my best to marry the two, one supporting the other. It took me back to my school days,...
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What they say of troubles, that they never come alone, might also be said of the passions. They arrive together, like the Muses or the Furies. François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the...
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