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Blast from the Past: Avignon
Download link: Avignon
I wanted to write a road song, but without it becoming “2 4 6 8 Motorway” or some kind of truckers’ lament. This was inspired by a drive to the South of France a few years ago, which did indeed involve a stop at a hotel near Dijon for an overnight rest.
I’ve recorded [...]
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There Went Summer
Weather forecast is for lots of rain tonight, so I was inspired to mow the lawn today, for what might be the last time before a damp autumn sets in. There wasn’t a lot of grass. The two dustbowl patches I tried to sow with seed in the spring are still bald.
Ironically, my front lawn [...]
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Tags: autumn, blackberries, harvest, hedgerow, Supermarkets
The Beautiful Girls of Summer
“I seen a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you…”
THE DYLAN
The Perseids and me are old friends. I had an unforgettable night, back in the summer of 1983, when I lay on the deck of a cross-channel ferry and watched the show over the Bay of Biscay. Thanking my lucky stars that I was [...]
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Tags: flirting
11 Reasons to Love Le Tour
I love the Tour de France, it’s my favourite televised sporting event, and the only reason one would ever watch ITV4. I only watch the one-hour highlights, mind: I’m not completely mad.
There are many things that make it ace. Here are eleven:
1. It’s surely the only professional sport during which spectators (and dogs) can (and [...]
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One
One day to go of my second-school placement. Due to relativistic effects, time has slowed down so that – while I am aging at an astonishing rate – the world outside doesn’t seem to move. A leaf falls from a tree and takes years to land.
I’ve actually only got one more lesson to go, on [...]
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Tags: time
Two days into my 6-week placement at a second school: it’s going okay. Can’t escape the feeling of marking time, counting the days, wishing it was over, but it’s okay so far.
It’s a very different school, which is the point of the exercise, so that’s good. It’s a different kind of site, in a different [...]
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Boing
Fittingly, this Easter weekend has felt properly spring-like. We’ve already had the first giant wasp of the year (in the bathroom, where they usually turn up, which is disturbing because it might mean they’re nesting in the loft again), the first giant bumblebee (in the conservatory), and I’ve even seen a giant Red Admiral butterfly. [...]
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Spaced
I have cancelled my account on myspace. Unfortunately, some of the students were displaying an interest in my music on there. I didn’t really mind, and didn’t have anything on there that embarrassed me, and I’d removed links to my blog etc., but it just struck me that – if this interest grew or spread, [...]
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miscellany at largesse
First of all, what is it with all the Daddy Longlegs? Or Crane Flies, as they are also known (it says here). Is it just Buckinghamshire, or are there fucking millions of the things all over the country? I see they’ve been reported in Blackpool, too. Apparently, they don’t eat in their adult (flying) form, [...]
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Miscellany at Large
Here are a few searches (the others are fairly repetitive as these things go).
This first one is funny:
a place to heat unsigned artists – I think it’s fairly true to say that all artists are destined to go to hell, once they make their pact with the devil and sign for a major label.
blackberry picking [...]
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