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Wrong side of the blue
Self-originated nicknames, ludicrous in-offs, and moderate highest career breaks
Alex Johnson
9 hr ago
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Going Native: Chapter 8
Clocks go 'tic tac', when something explodes it goes 'pataplum', and if you knock on the door you go 'tun, tun'
Alex Johnson
Mar 23
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A Soundtrack for Life: Unpublished material
The best bits that didn't make the musical cut
Alex Johnson
Mar 17
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Hot Dogs and Flesh Days: Menus That Made History returns
“Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”
Alex Johnson
Mar 10
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Leaving stuff out: what doesn't get into a book
Why did 'Reading at the Toilet' by Holbrook Jackson not make the contents page?
Alex Johnson
Mar 3
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February 2023
Going Native: Chapter 7 - Part II
Previously: Going Native Chapter 7 - Part I: An Inbetween Person Marmite and merienda One woman whose experience helped me to deal with this cultural…
Alex Johnson
Feb 28
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Work in progress: A Year of Reading Welshly
'A platform for a variety of voices beyond Dylan Thomas and Ivor the Engine to speak for the nation' (it says here)
Alex Johnson
Feb 22
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Going Native: Chapter 7 - Part I
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…
Alex Johnson
Feb 10
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A short history of the To Be Read list
A harmless minor pleasure or a chronic exercise in futility?
Alex Johnson
Feb 6
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January 2023
Going Native: Chapter 6 - Part II
Like natives, incomers can never be truly objective about other parts of their new homeland.
Alex Johnson
Jan 29
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Work in progress: A literary almanac
A peek behind the velvet curtain at what I'm writing at the moment
Alex Johnson
Jan 27
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What books have you actually read?
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…
Alex Johnson
Jan 17
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