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Contractual obligations and autumn leaves

When I resurrected this blog a couple of years ago I made a sort of contract with myself. Every Sunday …

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What’s It All About?

2013 ‘So, Lev, what’s your new book about?’ ‘Oh, right, well I’ve always thought, kind of, that … well, you …

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Keeping My Hand In

(If you really can’t read my handwriting, I’ve typed it all out down below. The things I do for you …

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Random Recipe Adventure, Week 9

2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. But which books to …

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Bad Donald

He’s always been there, ever since I can remember. Chipping in with helpful comments, just when they’re most needed. What …

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Bit of a to-do

Book M.O.T. Post office BINS! It makes me feel organised, purposeful, better about myself. I have a list of things …

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Happy New Year

The year has passed; the year has begun. Long live the year! I try not to succumb to the New …

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Bit of a messy ‘un

Olivier Messiaen would have been 109 today. In part to commemorate his birthday, and in part because it seems Why …

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Buy the book

Hi, my name is Lev. It’s three days since I bought a book. Hi Lev. I buy books like other …

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Autumn, valour and human leg slalom

The week has passed autumnally. Yesterday, deserted by the muse, I put out a twitter plea. ‘If you have any …

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