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Longdon pride

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

In the run-up to the 40th anniversary commemorations, a review of James O’Connell’s step-by-step first-hand account of one of the Falklands War’s bloodiest battles. — For Perspective

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The One That Got Away – Deshan Tennekoon

Sunday, July 19, 2020

The Sri Lankan author, Fulbright scholar and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. TRIGGER WARNING: includes bird-poo references. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Also tagged Americans, architecture, birds, cadjan, Dambulla, Deshan Tennekoon, editors, Everest, Fulbright Program, Galle Literary Festival, in-laws, mountaineering, photography, portraits, publishing, Red Cross, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), swimming, Time Out, Trincomalee, UNICEF, Xbox | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, July 6, 2020

. Only six percent. of all paper produced is used for making books. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, February 18 1907 . The Bombay Harmonium Company are neither from Bombay nor do they manufacture or stock harmoniums. Thor Heyerdahl was right. Only 38% of Netflix content is available outside the US. Penguins can shoot […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, anthropology, Ayn Rand, Bombay, books, Carlsberg, Denver, food, harmoniums, Hungary, literature, London, money, Nelson Evening Mail, Netflix, news, paper, Patrick Harrington, penguins, pigeons, Ringo Starr, satire, tea, Thor Heyerdahl, Venezuela, Venice, yoga | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE #1

Thursday, November 8, 2018

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

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, animals, assassins, babies, Beethoven, books, Caractacus, China, cricket, crime, Dhingra, Epping, Evelyn Waugh, fireworks, geography, health, heroes, horses, music, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Plutarch, pumpkins, Queen Mob's Tea House, race, Rain Men, Regulus, sailors, satire, Sweden, taxes, the Bible, the Congo, theatre, Tom McIlwaine, travel, TV | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, October 2, 2017

. Few of those who know and admire the camellia, that waxlike and pure flower, are aware that the parent plant, the origin of the million plants scattered throughout Europe, is still alive and is in Italy. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907 . The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than they did […]

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Evacuation

Friday, May 9, 2014

The day has arrived I will have to leave home to take a dump without offending the builders.

Filed in Poetry | Also tagged builders, etiquette, home | Comments (0)