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Month: June 2022

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Translating and using mechanical translation tools

29 June, 2022

An overview of on-line mechanical translation software and some of the general issues that make this software useful and/or problematic.

Categories At the Quill
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Swimming race to disappointment

29 June, 202222 June, 2022

Translation of 5 pages from Alex Schulmann’s Överlevarna – The Survivors: three brother race one another, swimming too far out in the lake.

Categories Articulations, Translation
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Quay of Dreams

16 June, 202215 June, 2022

A photo essay from a walk in the sun along the Quay of Dreams, where Gothenburg’s dreamers refurbish hulks and imagine sailing away.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Inarticulate characters – know what I mean?

8 June, 2022

It’s not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (perhaps inadvertantly). How about you?

Categories At the Quill
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Lsd – a piffiling proposal for Boris de Piffle

1 June, 2022

An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!

Categories Commonplace

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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

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Most popular posts published in 2021

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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners
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City of Lights, libraries and bridges – back to Sundsvall
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea
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Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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When did they begin, the Beguine?
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Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
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Why I really don’t like Kindle
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Book boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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