Sunday, December 20, 2015

Democracy in action!

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It is better that I write this now rather than wait until tomorrow when my bile might have reached the levels of vicious incohere...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

All fall down!

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It is over half a century since I last fell off a bike – which would seem to suggest to the perspicacious reader that that fifty y...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Anything but the essay!

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My displacement syndrome has driven me to write a poem rather than complete the first part of the three essays that I have to write befor...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

A necessary draft!

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As is so often the case, I open by bemoaning the fact that my writing is not going well. Not that I do not have much to say,...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Music and other concerns!

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To say that the Liceu's production of Benvenuto Cellini was 'busy' is an understatement along the lines of saying that...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Aftermath

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corruption Still reeling from the onslaught against the Spanish language that my interview yesterday represented, Toni has decided to...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation!

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It has to be said that a personal Rubicon of Amazonian proportions has been, not so much crossed, as waded and staggered through: I have ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

It's the little things . . .

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The incipient cold that is nagging at my nose and throat refuses to be subdued by swimming. One would have thought that energetic exercis...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

So much bitterness! So little time!

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There has been a response from the powers that be about the theft of my money and phone while I was using the local swimming pool that I ...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Confessions of an Unjustified Apple User

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“Hello, my name is Stephen and I'm an . . .” I have no wish to make a joke out of an opening sentence, which for many is a majo...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Turning toward the Light!

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There is something refreshingly illicit in typing on a computer that is not Apple. As a long time Mac user, I have been faithful to Mac ...