When I was at school, one of my favourite books that I read over and over was Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals. I remember being fascinated by his stories of childhood, a childhood so completely different to mine as to be unimagineable. Bizarrely, the thing that stuck with me most is that […]
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Paris reflections – August 2011
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Summer. Such an evocative word; a word about which countless poems and songs have been written. Say it to yourself a few times – what associations does it bring up? To me, summer will always mean the summers of my childhood. Days when you would awake to the sound of cicadas and could smell […]
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Shine a little light – The Pantheon, Rome July 2011
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If somebody invited you to dinner at “the bad house”, would you: a) assume that the description referred to the food and make sure you eat at home before you go; b) assume that it was some sort of dance club and pack your earplugs; or c) assume you were going to a strip […]
Click here for a full portionChocolate peanut butter chip brownies
I always wonder how people like emergency medical personnel or bomb disposal experts manage to do their jobs properly. I mean, can you imagine trying to concentrate on the specific and difficult job you were trained to do, while all around you there is chaos, noise, and people calling out and generally distracting you? I […]
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