May 6, 2017
There’s a couple who live a few doors down with their young son. On Monday he was off out with his mother and, as she strode purposefully to the car, he was haring up and down the road, skipping and jumping without a care in the world. “Come on, you’re wasting time” she called without […]
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April 29, 2017
This week me and my friend Adam went to see Dean Friedman at a local pizza restaurant. Having pretty much turned it into an annual pilgrimage I mused on what it is that draws me so strongly to these songs. The tunes are great, his lyrics clever and witty, but there’s something else too. If […]
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April 22, 2017
“It’s funny how day by day nothing ever changes, and then you look back and everything is different” – Calvin & Hobbes Last summer I ate an apricot and mused on the delight I might feel from having my very own apricot tree. Rather than going off to the local nursery and investigating the purchase […]
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April 14, 2017
This week I have been listening to the wonderful podcast “S-Town”. Pulled into a world I hadn’t experienced inhabited by people I didn’t know, all drawn in vivid colour by the excellent narration and their own seeming ordinariness underpinned with fascinating complexity, there was something else which kept me hooked in. As I listened I […]
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April 14, 2017
I’m in Italy. My grandfather was born here just a few miles away yet I, in all my pale English pomp, am effectively an alien cast in amongst foreign people in a foreign land. However much at home I might feel is this my home? However beautiful the beauty is, in a sense, borrowed and […]
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