Thursday, October 21, 2010

To the Manor Osborne

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I know someone who, because of depression, hasn't been able to work for years. Some days he is OK, some days not. There is no way he ca...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Emerging from hell

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Like most of the planet, I assume, I spend much of the last 24 hours or so gripped by the scenes from Chile, and moved very deeply by the wh...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Clowntime is over

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Norman Wisdom has died. One of the people who has actually made it into the blog before: http://szekely.blogspot.com/2006/02/wisdom-of-ages...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Katalin Varga (film review)

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So a couple of weeks ago we watched Katalin Varga, a film made by a British director, set near here and filmed in Hungarian (mostly) and Rom...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

(Girl)friend in a koma

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I went to a christening on Saturday, in which we (and a whole host of others) became godparents (I can only assume that the two actual paren...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Along the Enchanted Way (book review)

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William Blacker is an Englishman who lived in Romania for 8 years from 96-04. This book is part travelogue, part autobiography, part love ...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Small coincidences

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Couple of little coincidences happened this week. Firstly I was sitting in the garden reading William Blacker's " Along the Enchan...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Before the fall

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It feels like summer didn't happen this year. May and June were appalling weather-wise, and I spent July and August out of the country w...
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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Greet Expectations

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there are very few places in the world where the act of greeting someone on the stre...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Words don't come easy

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When Bill Bryson moved back to the US (to live not far up the road from me, in fact) he wrote a book of his experiences as a long time expat...
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