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Hired a bike and visited my only friend in Denmark, who runs a beautiful second-hand store that sells his three favourite things: books, and records, and coffee. He has two splendid crimson armchairs and windows ...read more
Tonight I intervened in somebody's love mess and may well have made things worse. I had cycled through the lit tunnel under the bridge four times for the sheer joy and came out blinking into ...read more
I was standing on the Underground platform just now gazing at a poster for a guy who calls himself the New Houdini. His hair was frosted & his hands outstretched imploringly: I can escape! If ...read more
Tonight I saw the moon for the first time in ages and my heart caught fire from its coldness. Only a more-or-less moon, more than a morsel and less than a round, most of its ...read more
Today I was walking by the river when a man accosted me for directions. His tone was accusing and he didn't say excuse me or thank you. He was carrying a crumpled green flyer, and ...read more
You see, I am still living in the dreamtime, where my ancestors are my brothers & sisters and trees my playmates. Sometimes I'm wiser and sometimes they're wiser. We hold hands on the street. There ...read more
I was in the petshop section of a department store, because pets were next to pens, as if alphabetical, and it is remarkably difficult to find decent, practical biros in Deutschland that are not too ...read more
Why such strong reactions to this week's cruise ship melodrama? Could be because as spoilt Western people with our five-planet lifestyle we resent other spoilt Western people exposing the scam? I am tasting an element ...read more
The man with bare fingers playing guitar at the riverside markets, in the snow. He is playing a languid, spooling version of "I've Done All the Dumb Things" by Paul Kelly. In his hands it ...read more