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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Talk of bloody long hauls! But now got this more or less last part done. Might even qualify for some kind of compensation. Keep your fingers crossed

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I’ve finally finished a pretty long entry for the Hemingway bollocks which I hope will be the last such long piece. Still to come are a coup...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

Tripette to The Netherlands (which is very, very close)

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Afternoon out at a town in the north of the Netherlands called Appingedam. Can’t really call it a ‘day out’ because it is close by, less tha...
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Saturday, 9 October 2021

Good morning on this Sunny day in the far north-west of Germany, a clog's throw from the Dutch border

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A few photos taken about 30 minutes ago (and which I’ve also posted on Facebook with the caption ‘This morning’s sun, 今天早上的太陽 in Chinese (it...
Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Hemingway bollocks: the end if in sight

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I'm glad to report that I'm slowly getting to the end of the Hemingway bollocks . This last essay (last, I think and hope) is in som...
Saturday, 18 September 2021

A blog entry of songs I like (by others) is resurrected after I realised several had visited it but the songs could not be played, and now a few more songs, notably three versions of the same, great song (but not a version by the late Mr L Cohen of Quebec who co-wrote it)

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I happened to be looking through the stats for the ‘ere blog and which posts had been recently viewed and came across one, post on August 23...
Friday, 10 September 2021

Two more short stories if you are interested (and a word from my probation officer who otherwise so rarely gets a mention here . . . )

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Two more stories if you are interested, as usual ones submitted to Deadlines For Writers . You can read those stories here: Fathers And Sons...
Sunday, 5 September 2021

Here's a song you might like . . .

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Completed track this afternoon (which makes it sounds it’s been weeks in the making — it hasn’t, just an hour or two here and there over thr...
Monday, 16 August 2021

A few tracks for your discerning listening . . .

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I thought I might post these here, too. Not particularly tidy, but then I'm not looking for a rock career. 1 I Fucked It 2 Ain't It ...
Thursday, 12 August 2021

Bloody August! But then it all tails off into why I am not nostalgic about reporting on (and later subbing the results of) local flower festivals. It’s all yours

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More than 40 years ago the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien published August Is A Wicked Month. I haven’t read it, but I’ve always remembered its...
Monday, 9 August 2021

You’ve never read Proust? What never? Ever?

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The following is in response to a comment left on my previous post by a Michael P Bowles who asked me, in view of my views on Hemingway, wha...
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