Humour

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The Smell of Other Worlds

Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...
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Why We Bother

Two and a half thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates was extremely worried that democracy would give rise to demagoguery. Socrates...
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What A Load of Nonsense!

At breakfast time my seeded toast smelled just like watercress while the coffee reeked of jellybeans recovered from Loch Ness My pillow smelled like...
Cherry

At Home with the Rhizomes

Back to life. Back to reality. Back to writing exactly one hundred words per day.
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Cherry

Nessie Saves The Day

This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches

As I swilled back a final deoch an dorais in the cosy and serenely atmospheric old bar, my mind was puzzled by how much a city could have changed in under half a century. Or perhaps it was me and my mind that had changed.
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3 Guys In My Life

To the three guys in my life, The one I hate, the one I love, The one I can’t stop thinking of, To the three guys in my life… We were lovers in the...