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Stops and Stories

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A November Legacy – looking back at TheSupercargo

12 January, 202210 November, 2021

After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.

Categories Articulations, At the Quill, Commonplace, Images, Stops and Stories
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A post-Covid cricket in the Antique Halls café

29 September, 2021

The chirupping of a cricket in Gothenburg’s Antique Halls is a puzzle, as I try out the writing-friendly qualities of the Latteria

Categories Stops and Stories
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

22 September, 2021

Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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You can’t balance on the tipping point

5 October, 202115 September, 2021

We live our life making choices, but sometimes our choices take us over a tipping point and we have to live with the consequences.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea

8 September, 2021

Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.

Categories Articulations, Exhibition, Stops and Stories
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From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August

12 January, 202225 August, 2021

After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.

Categories At the Quill, Commonplace, Images, Reviews, Stops and Stories
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Fire in the Bowl or Cinderella and the Flaming Deposit

28 July, 2021

Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Water in town and island life: holiday photos

12 January, 202221 July, 2021

Water in town and holiday life on a Baltic island: a photo essay. Mrs SC and I took our first post-Covid holiday last week. Here’s an account

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Celebrating Swedish Midsummer in photos by the sea

30 June, 202130 June, 2021

Midsummer in Sweden is a celebration of nature and the outdoors. Here are some nature photos from the seaside this Midsummer.

Categories Images, Stops and Stories
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More of a post holder than a blog post

2 June, 2021

This isn’t the blog post I’ve been trying to write. Instead it’s a nice, short post explaining why I’m having problems.

Categories Stops and Stories
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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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