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Self-originated nicknames, ludicrous in-offs, and moderate highest career breaks

9 hr ago

Clocks go 'tic tac', when something explodes it goes 'pataplum', and if you knock on the door you go 'tun, tun'

Mar 23

The best bits that didn't make the musical cut

Mar 17

“Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”

Mar 10

Why did 'Reading at the Toilet' by Holbrook Jackson not make the contents page?

Mar 3

February 2023

Previously: Going Native Chapter 7 - Part I: An Inbetween Person Marmite and merienda One woman whose experience helped me to deal with this cultural…

Feb 28

'A platform for a variety of voices beyond Dylan Thomas and Ivor the Engine to speak for the nation' (it says here)

Feb 22

Gerald Brenan wrote in 1956 at the end of his trip through the country in The Face of Spain that returning to London after Madrid offended his…

Feb 10

A harmless minor pleasure or a chronic exercise in futility?

Feb 6

January 2023

Like natives, incomers can never be truly objective about other parts of their new homeland.

Jan 29

A peek behind the velvet curtain at what I'm writing at the moment

Jan 27

My name is written inside, I’ve even added a couple of wincingly pompous notes on occasional pages. I must have read it. But I can’t recall a thing…

Jan 17

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