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Month: March 2022

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London in the rain: tourists on a bus

24 August, 202230 March, 2022

Mrs SC and I visited London and did touristy things, including travelling by bus and photographing the city in the rain.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Pinman lives a dangerous life

23 March, 202223 March, 2022

The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.

Categories Articulations, Poem
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school

16 March, 2022

Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Return to Tema: the motorway then and now

15 September, 20229 March, 2022

On the Accra-Tema Motorway: first part of a report on my return to Tema, Ghana, 50 years on from when I was there as a child in 1963-64.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Header art – great featured images at TheSupercargo

2 March, 2022

A post to focus on the header art of my blog posts. This is something I feel doesn’t otherwise have a spotlight shone on it.

Categories Commonplace, Gallery, Illustration, Images

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I'm delighted to report the publication of Smoked, a poem about my father, in the latest edition of The Poet: Family (vol 2).

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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)
Featured Maastricht
A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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