A few weeks ago, my blogging friend, Lesley, over at Peregrinations, tagged me to post seven blue things from around my home. I could have crossed most of the seven off my list with the…
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The photo above displays the dominant colour and weather around here this weekend — it has been grey and wet! Rainfall warnings and anxiety about the state of roof repair and remembering where the boots…
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Last weekend, I made a bold choice to put away all work on Friday and not get it out again ’til Monday night. My marking was caught up, and with the long weekend chomping one…
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I can see how blogs begin to fade away — busy day after busy day, I go longer and longer between posts and the posts themselves are a bit dull, I’m sorry to admit. But…
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It was purely coincidence that the novel I read directly after I read Sebald’s The Emigrants should be Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, but the two invite some worthwhile comparison. Although the reasons for the diaspora of…
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