Recessive jeans

My parents shaped my way beyond my DNA. Hard as it is to believe, those two humble Scots forged my fashion destiny. To this day, my clothing choices hark back to them. Thanks Mom and Dad. My father (normally a mild-mannered man) got in first when he forbade the wearing of denim jeans from under his roof. This…
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There’s a kākāpō at a library near you!

You can imagine the joy at Central Manchester when a kākāpō  emerged from the returns bin.   Not the real McCoy, you understand, but a beautifully sewn replica – one of several kākāpō that have been hidden around Christchurch as part of  Sayraphim Lothian’s Guerrilla Kindness for Christchurch project. Described as “a Persian cat with feathers“, the kākāpō is…
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New Year’s Resolution (6)

The latest title off my list of seven books from The Guardian Best Books of 2013 was the most challenging so far. William Boyd thought that Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig was “fascinating, intimate… a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was answered with great candour and…
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A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square: Picturing Canterbury

A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square, Christchurch Christchurch City Libraries, File Reference CCL PhotoCD 6, IMG0041 From our Faces of our Forebears heritage image collection Local pictures on the blog Browse our image collection A Sandwich-board Man Advertising Dancing Shoes In Cathedral Square, Christchurch…
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Recent necrology, March 2014

Some well-known people who have died recently: Tony Benn, 1925-2014 British Labour Party politician, orator, campaigner and diarist, recognisable by his pipe, tape recorder and outsized mug Clarissa Dickson Wright, 1947-2014 Bombastic, outspoken lawyer who was brought to her knees by riches and alcoholism then rose again as a cook on Two Fat Ladies Ann…
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Less is more?

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. ~George Saunders. I have always enjoyed reading short stories, most probably because I have the attention span of a gnat coupled with a huge need to dissect and psychoanalyze given situations…
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