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Switch off the new TV, read about old TV
I re-read old books more than I read new books.
Sleeping dogs
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Pie? Terrific, I’ll just get myself a glass
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Pie? Terrific, I’ll just get myself a glass
A reader has alerted me to a new product at the supermarket.
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The past never dies in a photograph
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The past never dies in a photograph
‘‘The past is never dead. It isn’t even past,’ said American writer William Faulkner.
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Sending redundancy back whence it came
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Sending redundancy back whence it came
He was sat on a park bench, hunched over.
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Symbolism waiting for someone to find it
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Symbolism waiting for someone to find it
Signs and symbols, signs and symbols, which of us doesn’t love a sign or symbol?
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On giving a melancholic bore an army
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On giving a melancholic bore an army
One should not give, wrote Auden, a rifle to a melancholic bore.
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The robot will now read today’s lesson
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The robot will now read today’s lesson
Ooooh, the creep of technology.
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The years flood back with a single crunch
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The years flood back with a single crunch
Bed time.
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Killer ducks were killed, not anything else
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Killer ducks were killed, not anything else
"Oh why do people waste their breath, inventing dainty names for death?" asked Sir John Betjeman, which seems a suitable way to introduce a discussion of the meaning of euthanasia.
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Offering the kindness of strangers to others
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Offering the kindness of strangers to others
Let me paint the scene: it is an early summer evening and I am rewarding myself with a glass of wine for having survived the day.
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Catabingo, the game no-one wants to play
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Catabingo, the game no-one wants to play
How's the gloom?
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Sweeping away bovine misconceptions
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Sweeping away bovine misconceptions
Witgar Wiegele is a baker in the Austrian alps.
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Swinging the lead over leading campaign
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Swinging the lead over leading campaign
To lead is a fine Old English verb.
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A long time spent together is precious
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A long time spent together is precious
Bernard Levin, the writer, wore the same watch for most of his adult life.
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Take a single chance to learn about stereo
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Take a single chance to learn about stereo
For six decades I believed that the word stereo meant two.
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Being more manly, taking the proverbial
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Being more manly, taking the proverbial
I have always wanted to create a proverb.
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The things you do at -40°C in Moose Jaw
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The things you do at -40°C in Moose Jaw
Where were you at 1.30 in the morning on Christmas Day 1983?
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Serried ranks and technological wonders
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Serried ranks and technological wonders
Before me rise the serried ranks of a university lecture theatre.
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The Vellacott dictum and Kalgoorlie water
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The Vellacott dictum and Kalgoorlie water
Some years ago a gentleman from Perth in Western Australia got in touch about some matter.
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Signing off on a first-class collection
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Signing off on a first-class collection
Do little boys still collect autographs?