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Black and White

June 8, 2008 by  
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I started reading Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Ubervilles’ (A Pure Woman) again last night. I’ve read it before so you’d think that knowing the end would dissuade me from reading it again. But it doesn’t. It’s an instructive piece and I

Storm In a Teacup

May 14, 2008 by  
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Getting the wrong end of the stick can almost certainly cause a storm in a teacup but how do you stop it when you realise you’ve too far gone to pull back from it? Do you just

Wellspring

May 3, 2008 by  
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I miss the open spaces of my childhood but I’m caught in a bind. The city is where I’ve lived most of my life but it’s the smell of the country that makes me feel alive again, the smell of open space and it’s reminder of a different kind of days work that

Joe Average

June 25, 2007 by  
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It’s your average ‘no-ego-in-the-way’ kind of person who’ll just ‘fess up when they know they’re wrong or have been wrong about a thing. Right? Well, maybe! Why? Because no-one wants to