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A Pure Woman. Lloyd Jones, Hand Me Down World
Lloyd Jones, Hand Me Down World. John Murray, 2011. First published in New Zealand in 2010. This is a love story and a ghost story. It tells, in differing, often conflicting versions and recensions –...
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Hello Catalunya
Yesterday I posted my goodbye to Berlin – helping son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons (2 and 3) pack up and prepare to move to Sant Cugat del Vallès, a suburb of Barcelona. TD jnr and I ended up...
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Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin Yesterday’s post on Elizabeth Taylor was the first in a few weeks. I thought I’d explain why. My stepson, his wife and two nervous cats and two small boys were moving from Berlin...
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Hello to Berlin
Back in the first year of this blog one of my first posts was about a visit to Berlin, where my stepson and daughter-in-law live. Since that post they’ve had two boys. Mrs TD and I are just back from a...
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A parrot called Elvis
Something different today, as I’m on a train en route for Berlin, and didn’t much care for the last book I read – Patrick Gale’s A Place Called Winter. It’s ok as a light read while travelling, but the...
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Chloe Aridjis, ‘Book of Clouds’
I read most of Book of Clouds, the first novel by Chloe Aridjis, appropriately, on a long-haul flight to Chile, mostly above the cloud cover. Clouds are the central (perhaps over-obvious) symbol in...
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Berlin: meze, the Wall and reconciliation
Hasir restaurant (photo: Hasir website) There’s me, my wife and son – all English; his wife and her parents – Chilean; and her Turkish-German friend. We’re in Hasir on Oranienburgerstrasse, one of...
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