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Departures and Arrivals (part 1), The Typewriter Museum, Books and Film/TV.

Taking Stock Last night was the winter solstice. Midwinter, the shortest day, the longest night. The ancient astronomers saw the solstice as the moment the sun stood still. A long, winter’s night that even before it finishes, has given birth to the slow climb back toward longer days and a more fiery sun. The Gemini twin-heads of endings and beginnings are on my mind as I write, waiting for the sun to come up. This year, I […]

Puglia, War and Figgy Pudding

I’m writing to you from the land of figgy pudding, carol concerts and endless streets strung with Christmas lights. December in London – my favourite time of the year. The city is jammed; one taxi driver told me it was the busiest he’d ever seen it in thirty years of driving. I made the mistake of trying to walk Oxford Street between meetings, only to find myself sandwiched in a mosh pit of humans, moving forward […]

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