Monthly Archives: September 2007

Pirates of the Iron Road

(It is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I am so sorry). I think I may have mentioned, on occasion, that when stressy, I lose the off-switch for my brain and develop insomnia (fret me not with your counsel, I … Continue reading

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Someone hand me a paper bag. Now, please.

Hang on. Wait. Now wait just a minute. It appears to be the middle of September. Who said it could be the middle of September already? I’m supposed to be enrolling on the third Monday of September. Which is next … Continue reading

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What I read on my holidays:

Three or four poems by Wordsworth, from a copy of The Major Works, purchased at the Wordsworth Museum shop in Grasmere, and mostly only so I could point at assorted crags and talk rot. The Preface to The Works of … Continue reading

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