Sunday, January 11, 2009

One brick on top of another

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Another little literary brick falls into place. One of the few triumphs I achieved as a pupil in Gladstone Primary and Infants School, Catha...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Blow storm!

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Reading pulp fiction has consequences. Last night I was completing my reading of the latest part I have found of the Mars sequence of novels...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Soup glorious soup!

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Soup is such a trying dish. Don’t misunderstand me, I like soup. True, in a restaurant one always has the vague feeling that the soup is the...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

Magnum opus?

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To say that my mammoth (only in terms of time expended) painting of Sitges is nearing completion does not mean that it is finished. The damn...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The Problem With Pasta

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Life, as someone almost remarked, is too short to make ravioli. It is invariably disappointing and the contents, whatever they purport to be...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Pulses are pests

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Although I am getting know the little seasonal quirks of Catalonia, sometimes the details pass me by. Today was Kings. Yesterday the three o...
Monday, January 05, 2009

Changing times

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“I’ll meet you in an hour in the Wedgwood Room in Howells.” My trips to the centre of Cardiff with my mother with myself either as companion...
Sunday, January 04, 2009

The good, the bad and the filmic!

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Sometime, doesn’t it just seem that the world is striving simply to put you in your place? I have, with total justification, been railing ag...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

No waves!

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The sea was dead calm today. A rather unsettling effect making the whole scene from the balcony look rather like a colour drained painting. ...
Friday, January 02, 2009

Christmas begone!

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There is something about a grey day with gently falling rain with the horizon smudged into the sky which makes the gaudy stridency of a Chri...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Here we go again!

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Driving up to Terrassa for the New Year Meal the entire population of Catalonia seemed to be on the roads. My carefully chosen leaving time ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Lost in the City

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An old technique came into play yesterday when I found myself wandering around the Gothic part of Barcelona and having very little idea of w...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Culture all around please!

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The last opera of the year beckons. The last musical offering of the year for me is ‘Simon Boccanegra’ by Verdi. The plot has all the subtle...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Banking delight!

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I always give my victims fair warning. I ask, “Do you speak English,” and if the answer is in the negative then frankly Jonnie Foreigner onl...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Careless talk costs lives!

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Hell is other people. How true Sartre's words are when you live in a flat. We have been spoilt by our rich neighbours who are able to ow...