Tuesday, November 11, 2008

It seemed like a good idea at the time

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I wonder how many of the slight oddities in life have been weakly explained away by a half hearted appeal to a vague feeling that somewhere ...
Monday, November 10, 2008

The past has a false allure

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Some towns do not immediately reveal their true character from a casual approach. We went, en famille, to Súria to visit what was advertised...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Through the smoke darkly

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When a colleague evinces a desire to eat a steak, it is surely not a bad idea to go to an Argentinean restaurant. Wrong! Right about the ste...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

Man or machine?

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I would that I could remember how to apply the Turing Test. This wish has been prompted by the service that I have recently received from Am...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Almost gone!

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The tail end of a cough and cold is, in a way, worse than the actual full blown affliction. You have spent your time sniffling and hacking; ...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Days well spent!

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The last two days have been reminiscent of the worst excesses of my student days. Not, I hasten to add, for the consumption of Small Sweet S...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Plus ça change!

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Committee meetings have a flavour all of their own. It makes no difference that they are in imposing buildings on one of the most imposing s...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Cough, and you cough alone!

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Lilian Baylis is credited with the immortal words, “In desperation I turned to Shakespeare.” Far be it from me to equate my present conditio...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

The world gone mad!

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Am I the only person in the world who really and truly doesn’t give a damn about who wins in the Brazilian Grand Prix? And before anyone acc...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

What day is it?

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When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. The opening o...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Wasted day?

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My enforced domestic sojourn today has been as a result of cough, cold and sore throat courtesy of you-know-who who has only just emerged fr...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Normal Service Resumed

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The sun (if not the required temperature) has returned. The workmen are busily driving large vehicles up and down the beach in an important ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Wot no sun!

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Two days of rain! That horrible familiar oppressive grey which characterises autumn in my memory has come back to haunt me in Catalonia! The...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Food for thought

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Memories of my mother came back with burnt paella. My mother was an excellent cook, but she did like things ‘well done.’ For years, certainl...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Days pass

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UNITED NATIONS DAY 24th OCTOBER I would like to say that my enthusiasm for the United Nations Organization is born of a burning desire to se...