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Month: July 2018

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Six decades of a date – the thirtieth of July

22 August, 201830 July, 2018

The six decades between 1958 and 2018 – today is my 60th birthday and I’m sharing snapshots of my life from the last six decades.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
Dockside cranes

Dockside cranes – photo of the week

3 October, 201827 July, 2018

Framed by one of the iron mooring loops set into the quayside, some of the few remaining dockside cranes along by Göta älv.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
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Laurie in the City of the Unborn

16 April, 201925 July, 2018

Laurie goes looking for the City of the Unborn – a short story inspired by one of the cities in Italo Calvino’s book of Invisible Cities.

Categories Articulations, Story
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Dunstan by Conn Iggulden – a review

17 September, 201923 July, 2018

Dunstan (2017) by Conn Iggulden, a review of the historical novel and some ruminating on the the workings of the creative imagination.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
Sunset silhouettes

Sunset silhouettes – a photo of the week

3 October, 201820 July, 2018

The sunset silhouettes of four people on a headland watching the sun set as the contrail of a passing jet cuts across the sky.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t

22 August, 201818 July, 2018

Depending on your point of view these Brussels parakeets make the world a better place, or they’re a green menace. Either way they’re not easy to photograph.

Categories Stops and Stories
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I am reading The Lucky Galah and Händelser vid Vattnet

17 September, 201916 July, 2018

I am reading The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen and Kerstin Ekman’s Händelser vid Vattnet. More on the joys of reading two very different books in tandem.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
Watching water

Children watching falling water – photo of the week

3 October, 201813 July, 2018

Two children watching falling water in the fountain at Brunnsparken, I took this photo and originally published it in July 2013.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
Writing diary - words of slender means

Words of slender means – a writing diary entry

19 August, 201811 July, 2018

Words of Slender Means is my writing diary entry this month and focuses on the soundscape in Murial Spark’s novel The Girls of Slender Means.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
Almost art - A Karoliner at the Gate

A Karoliner at the Gate – photo of the week

3 October, 20186 July, 2018

A guide at the Nya Älvsborg fortress silhouetted in the gateway to the castle. She was wearing a blue woolen Karoliner greatcoat, a tricorn hat and boots.

Categories Images, Photo of the week
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