
November 28, 2011
crazy mike’s bargain emporium
the mighty yellow teapot of happiness: yours for a dollar In 1999, a couple of weeks after arriving in Welly I found myself making the first of what would [...]
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November 24, 2011
thankful
For being at this end of four billion years of evolutionary success; for the bittersweet gift of witnessing the sunset of a good, long life; for [...]
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November 21, 2011
scenes from the weekend
In which we put the world to rights, just after the fourth bottle at 2am on Saturday morning; got to potter around Lyme Regis and breath [...]
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November 12, 2011
heroes
Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Albright, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Janet Frame, Martin Amis, and Etta James would all be attendance at my [...]
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November 6, 2011
jerusalem
I always thought it odd when we sung Blake’s hymn at school: ‘green and pleasant’ was not my impression of England. Ensconced in New Zealand in [...]
















