Self-originated nicknames, ludicrous in-offs, and moderate highest career breaks
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Clocks go 'tic tac', when something explodes it goes 'pataplum', and if you knock on the door you go 'tun, tun'
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The best bits that didn't make the musical cut
“Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”
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Why did 'Reading at the Toilet' by Holbrook Jackson not make the contents page?

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…
'A platform for a variety of voices beyond Dylan Thomas and Ivor the Engine to speak for the nation' (it says here)
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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…
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A harmless minor pleasure or a chronic exercise in futility?
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January 2023

Like natives, incomers can never be truly objective about other parts of their new homeland.
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A peek behind the velvet curtain at what I'm writing at the moment
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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…
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