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Summer 2007




A Foreigner In Fes
I've just spent the past hour or so looking at photos from home. I am homesick. I want to go home.

For The Love Of Cod
This starchy speciality is surrounded by a faint penumbra of happy memories, of holidays and days out and idle good times.

Spring 2007




Not So Lost In Translation
The progression of immigration has shown how children of the native speakers of one language are more than able to use their parents' mother tongue and acquire one of their own also...

The Blessed Plot
"Ah, salut, monsieur, voulez-vous?"

The Monty Don Effect
I grew up in a windy rural upland, in a house surrounded by gardens, gently decaying fruit trees, and fields...

Oyzumping
I have decided to coin a new word: OED, here I come. My word is "oyzumping". But what does it mean?

Winter 2006




I Ate Myself...
... and I want to die (of embarrassment)

Bright Lights & Bendy Buses
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson





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