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Learning to swim
Splash In the baths today, swimming my 40 lengths, I was trying to remember learning to swim, but the memory’s lost somewhere in the chlorine haze. My mother would probably say I learned when we lived...
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But isn’t that Fredrik Reinfeldt?
This screenshot from a news film on the BBC’s Election 2010 site (here). Tory leader David Cameron and wife leave the polling station after having voted – preceded by the Prime Minister of Sweden,...
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So this is what you mean by democracy?
It’s ridiculous to be so taken up with an election from which I have been disenfranchised, but nevertheless. Last night’s election count from the UK had me sitting up till midnight, and up again...
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Proportional Representation. Now.
Norman Tebbit & Margaret Thatcher, 1985 In the wake of the recent general election in Britain, and while the parties negotiate to decide the complexion of the next government, on 8th May blogger...
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The Kitchen Diaries & Toast
I am reading my birthday presents, two books by Nigel Slater. A big, fat, beautifully illustrated hardback called The Kitchen Diaries and a slim paperback called Toast. The former is about seasonal...
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Getting ready for the carnival
I just got back from London where my wife and I spent two very full weeks. This was the first photo I took while I was there. The idea of a pigeon dressing up as a parrot for the carnival tickled my...
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Disparate Days
My plans for today were sidetracked by the Word for Today on Artwiculate.com: Disparate. Disparate means various, utterly different, unlike. Long a go I started writing a book with the working title...
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One fine day at Kew
The 12th September there were clouds in the sky and sometimes the weather seemed threatening, but mostly the sun shone. In London for my sister’s wedding and to house-sit, my wife and I took this...
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