Hot Hot Hot

Monday was just unpleasant, too humid to stay indoors, too humid to move without breaking out in a sheen of sweat, the only way to get through the day was to sit in a cold bath and soak the day away…
Yesterday was better, it was all about enjoying the warmth.
It began as I donned my [...]

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A Sense Of Noisy Peace

With the house surrounded by fields of maize we contemplated re-enacting “Field of Dreams”, if we built it, they would come, but what to build? Naturally a baseball pitch would have been ideal but it was a long way for the spirits of long-dead baseball players to travel (and I think it may be difficult [...]

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Stuck in the Middle

Superhero movies come and go and sometimes we’re more than happy to see them go but from time to time there are exceptions and  based on the trailer I saw today I’m hoping that Hellboy 2 will be one of them, hoping against hope that the sequel will be possibly even better than the original, [...]

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Question Time

He glances up from a myopic analysis of the pages in front of him, turns to me with almost hesitancy and asks:
“I see from your CV that you’re interested in hiking? Have you climbed Mt Blanc? No? Why not? How about the Pyrennes? The Atlas Mountains? Ben Nevis? But you say here that you’re a [...]

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Picking Flowers

Only one month left until the People’s Photography Exhibition and I’m busy selecting photos…

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Ayude Me

They say that God shuts one door only to open another and it seems to be that way for me too. Here I am in Utrecht, sacked by the company who brought me over here, not a good position to be in but do I despair?
Not at all. You see I’ve made the acquaintance of [...]

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Me Ma

Mamma Mia, here I go again, how can I resist ya?
I hate musicals and not just a little hate but with a passion which is a drag since my parents love them and like to have family outings to musicals, I’m a bad son, I hardly go but one day I found myself at “Mamma [...]

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On The Bedside Table

I haven’t been reading much lately, I seem to spend most of my time in the middle of three or four books at once, never devoting my full attention to any one of them, yet I’m been lucky, each of them has been good and got me involved in the story (I guess they’d have [...]

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Window Shopping

It was meant to be an innocent cycle, one of those trips where you open up the map, scan for patches of green or open spaces and randomly select one of them.
On Monday, the lucky destination was the area around Maarsen, just north of Utrecht. It’s a nice cycle along the canal, slowly moving from [...]

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High Life

Towards evening, as the sun is thinking about putting on its pyjamas, floating above the buildings and the trees, the freemen go travelling…

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