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Continue reading →: Songs that bring back memories
As an old fart who likes music I am getting a reputation for picking obscure songs at work to listen to on a Friday afternoon. Today’s choice was anything by Gilbert Becaud, so we listened to Et Maintenant – a classic (…
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Continue reading →: Crazy Love
I was at the Black Box cafe the other day and spent part of an enjoyable evening making arty conversation with a guy called Peter. This was the prelude to watching Crazy Love a Belgian film based on stories by Charles Bukowski. To round off this tribute night there were readings of Bukowski’s poetry…
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Continue reading →: Culls
The summit meeting came to order after a lively debate about culling. The giraffes had argued that the human gene pool was becoming concentrated around the few oligarchs who dominate their tribes through economic advantage. Several felines objected to repeated use of the expression ‘fat cats’ pointing out that human obesity was more…
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Continue reading →: Fiction
Thank you David Simon and Kate Atkinson. Two books one after the other that have given my brain an escape from the mundane. Homicide – A Year on the Killing Streets written by the creative genius behind the tv drama ‘The Wire‘ was a brick of a book that paid tribute…
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Continue reading →: Still Anthology
Damn! I missed the launch of the community arts partnership anthology of poems on the theme ‘Still’. A magazine is also going to be printed in the summer and I’m curious to see which one(s) of mine they picked. It will be distributed to public libraries
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