January 25, 2009
In the flickering candlelight, there is a man in a skirt approaching me, carrying both a knife and a stuffed sheep’s stomach, and somewhere in the background I can hear a sound like a cat strapped to some Mediaeval instrument of torture. Oh no… wait. It’s bagpipe music. And no, I’m, not being inducted into [...]
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March 18, 2008
One of the signs that Spring is in the air in this country is the fact that the daffodils start to poke their heads through the frozen earth. Their arrival is gradual, amost stealthy – just a few slightly more substantial spikes among the spikes of green grass that you hardly notice at first. And [...]
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