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Time For My Annual Bout of Tourism

July 13th, 2010 · Lifeblog

I’m on the train with a rucksack which is approximately the same size and shape as I am when I’m curled up (for example, when I am doing a mushroom float. I think. I haven’t actually done a mushroom float for years). I booked myself a seat on the so-called Quiet Coach. Most of the [...]

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Current Obsession: The Pochette Violin

May 29th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music

The pochette violin is also known as kit violin, pocket violin, dancing master’s violin and Tanzmeistergeige. As the name suggests, it was designed as a pocket-travel-fiddle, often used by dancing masters, travelling minstrels and anyone else who didn’t fancy lugging a full size violin around in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
These days they are regaining popularity [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions? Huh.

January 12th, 2009 · Lifeblog

‘Be More Organised’, I said.’Drink Less Alcohol’, I said. [Or did I? Maybe I was supposed to drink as much as I wanted but make sure I went jogging.]
Here is what happened yesterday:
7am. Wake up in panic in a bed in my mother’s house, where I am spending weekend. Have massive suspicion that am going [...]

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