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Thursday, 25 October 2018

I call on all philistines to come and join me (it’s getting a little lonely in my neck of the woods). We can discuss ‘meaning’ and ‘creativity’ and even try to establish what exactly is the point of Gilbert & George’s work, shit and all

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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany My sister, who lived in the Philippines for several years, a country which has a large ethnic Chinese com...
Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Just a few pics . . .

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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany I’m in North-West Germany for two weeks, arriving last Tuesday, visiting my sister who lives in the back ...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018

What will be in Santa’s Brexit sack next March? Well, I’m buggered if I know

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Remember what it was like looking forward to Christmas when you were young? Remember the excitement, anticipation and wondering what Santa -...
Friday, 21 September 2018

In which I learn that blog entries like lemonade can also go flat. Still. . .

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Three Queens Hotel, Burton-on-Trent – Sunday, September 16. NB This post was begun five days ago, an irony given what I write. Oh, well, y...
Friday, 14 September 2018

I feel the itch, so let me scratch a little more (though whether you are in the slightest bit interested is neither here nor there. You are probably far more concerned with your own sodding itch)

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That bloody itch to write, often nothing more than the obsession of a barroom bore to hear the sound of his own voice. And sadly I suffer fr...
Monday, 10 September 2018

History isn’t bunk, Mr Ford, and I wish I knew far more of it

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What with one thing and another - leaving Britain in June 1959 when I was nine to go and live in Berlin (after my father was posted there by...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

Off to a concert in Fowey...

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Fowey – Tuesday, August 21 at 18.30 local time. I’ve arrived in Fowey for a chamber music concert at a St Fimbarrus church (the town churc...
Thursday, 16 August 2018

OK, I’ll come right out of the closet: I am a pro-semite and have been for many years. There, I’ve said it, now condemn me. As for anti-semites, there are plenty around, but I don’t think Corbyn is one, he’s just a chap who doesn’t seem to have grown up much (and there are plenty around just like him)

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Looking at the list of countries in which live those who have visited this blog recently live, the chances are that some reading this haven’...