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More good wine and I’m learning French
I’m learning French! I’ve been learning French for three weeks now (self taught, can’t be arsed with formal lessons) and I’ve gone quickly from zero French to ‘speaking French incredibly badly’, which...
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Poem – The Last Boy in Europe
Freezing rain, for example. in West London take a shortcut Beautiful ascent of the ridge during a rainstorm. the hotel is full Accommodation outside of Foix the route of the walk Take a shortcut Image...
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Feelings, emotions and the Blue Screen of Death
“It’s like the blue screen of death,” she said, describing her difficulty conveying her emotion with a widely used term for a Windows computer crash. “There are no words there.” By Kirsten Lindsmith...
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In praise of lower-league football
Ely City FC Yesterday I went with my boy (Harry), his pal (Sid) and Sid’s grandad (John) to see our local side, Ely City FC play Dereham Town in a top-of-the-table clash of the Ridgeons League Premier...
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Just like honey
I like this quote from the Ball of Honey (Madhupindika) sutta. …learning to view feelings not as things but as parts of a causal process affecting the qualities in the mind Image by Siona Karen :...
View ArticleThrough fields and forests…
An inconceivably sweet longing, a yearning, Drove me to roam through fields and forests. With a thousand burning tears my heart was freed, I felt another world rise up in me – And I learned to live...
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Ely cathedral on an autumn morning
I’m lucky enough to live in the lovely cathedral city of Ely in the English fenland. I pass the cathedral on the walk to the station to catch my train to London. The cathedral always looks beautiful...
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The Chilterns – an poem for the Autumn by Rupert Brooke
The Chilterns, a poem by Rupert Brooke I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires. White...
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2014 – my blogging year in numbers
2014 2014 (well, the last three months of 2014) was the year I decided to really push on with my blogging and I think that effort has paid off. In 2014 I authored and published 25 posts on this blog....
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Adventures in collecting jazz vinyl : André Previn, Shelly Manne, Herb Ellis,...
I bought this one off EBay for the reasonable price of £9.95 (inc. p&p). André Previn is usually associated with classical music, who knew he was a hep jazz piano man back in his youth? I didn’t...
View ArticleNotes in anticipation of the Jazz Appreciation course at the University of Texas
I’ve enrolled on an online course in Jazz Appreciation, run by the University of Texas. The course starts in a couple of days so I just wanted to get a few notes down beforehand. I have a poor history...
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Tuesday in Odesa
Tuesday was largely more of the same and I was more than happy with that. Walking, food, drink, walking food, drink. Oh yes and the beautiful buildings and the sea, the Black Sea which I had seen as a...
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