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NEWS AT A GLANCE #1

Thursday, November 8, 2018

A lad named Rogers, and other true-ish stories. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, January 1, 2018

. Stocks were first used in England about 1359 A.D.. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 18 1907 . Women leaders are more volatile than men. The cause of alcoholism is unknown. They’re selling hippy wigs in Woolworths. In Togoloese, ‘fofo’ means ‘revered big brother’. White people, lacking community, must make do with property. If extortionate fares […]

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“What’s so wrong with having a sense of humour?”

Sunday, February 28, 2010

ASH Smyth meets his poetic heroin(e) and suffers a Dictaphone malfunction When you step outside, perhaps you’ll see an envoy from the Nobel Literature Committee; though it’s unlikely. This was my attempt at ‘finishing’ Wendy Cope’s contribution to the GLF’s Opening Lines Project. I figured it did the job, a fragment of Cope-style (Copious?) […]

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