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Month: March 2021

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Taking to heart Douglas Adams’ “note to self”

31 March, 2021

Douglas Adams, wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet had terrible difficulties in writing. He wrote himself this note of encouragement.

Categories At the Quill, Indie publishing
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A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village

25 March, 202124 March, 2021

A Mediterranean quintet of books, and a few more. A reading diary round-up of the books I completed in the first 8 weeks or so of 2021.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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On the north side: photos from a morning walk

18 March, 2021

I took my new smartphone for a photo walk on the north side of the river: wharves and waste ground, building works and sculptures.

Categories Images, Photo essay
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How Do You Read Poetry? A Village Life

10 March, 2021

Reading A Village Life by Louise Glück, I’m consciously trying to read it in a different way from the way I usually read poetry books.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Behemoth passing – of death and computers

15 September, 20223 March, 2021

Behemoth, my desktop PC, died on Monday. I could probably revive it, but it’s ten years old – old for a computer. It’s time to buy a new one.

Categories Commonplace

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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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