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Header image: Tema house and school

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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Monkey trauma – a childhood story from Ghana

21 October, 2020

Monkey trauma – when I was six and we lived in Ghana a monkey stole my sweets – and it seems I’m still angry about it!

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee

24 September, 2020

Jamestown, Accra – Day three of our visit to Ghana, Mrs SC and I joined a walking tour of Jamestown with Collins and Lee.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Let’s taxi with the flow in Accra

19 August, 202019 August, 2020

Taxi Accra: Our first full day in Ghana, Mrs SC and I set out to find the main tourist information centre, and inadvertently explore Accra by taxi.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
Flying to Accra

Flying to Accra – in 1964 and 2018

15 September, 20228 July, 2020

Flying to Accra. This post continues my account of our my trip with Mrs SC to Ghana for my 60th birthday, This week’s post is about getting there.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Ghana memories – an introduction

3 August, 202027 May, 2020

Ghana memories: an introduction to a forthcoming series of posts at Stops and Stories about my trip to visit Ghana again after 54 years.

Categories Stops and Stories
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The Ghana Christmas ball and my father Christmas

11 August, 201913 January, 2016

The Ghana Christmas ball was the first Christmas present I remember receiving. I was six years old and I was given the ball by my Father Christmas.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Swimming – now and then and in between

11 August, 201930 September, 2015

In which we consider swimming as exercise and therapy and a try to remember learning to swim as well as exploring swimming at Piscine de Longchamp in Uccle.

Categories Memoir, 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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