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Memories, by Toutatis!

Memory is a strange thing, its triggers and manifestations random and unpredictable. The vast complexity of the human brain has …

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Rainy day

It was hot. And then on the sixty-fifth day did come the rain. And the country did explode with joy, …

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Watch The Football! Watch it! It’s Gonna Move!

It used to mean so much. I have shed tears over sport. Tears of joy, tears of frustration, and yes, …

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Music to die for

Few words this week, but much music. The other day, prompted by I don’t really know what, I asked the …

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Little things, full of meaning

Monday morning. Yoga. I am an intermittent yogist. I kid myself that I go twice a week, but even the …

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Feel the ooh

We need a new word. I’m always coining new words, or at least words I imagine to be new. Occasionally …

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Lifelong forgetting

You live and learn. That’s the idea, anyway. But this idea is undermined by a simple thing called human idiocy. …

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These Shoes

There’s something about a pair of shoes. A really good, well-made pair of shoes. Shoes that, when you put them …

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  • Peanuts 1953 – the noble art of losing

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