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Canada By Tandem

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Hover over the map markers to see each day's destination . 6252 kilometres, 8 provinces, 43 days, 300 packets of instant oatmeal, 1 country and 1 bike. Enter the site . Site best viewed in Firefox.

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David Marston Writes: For tomorrow's tomorrow

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Wednesday, 6 May 2015. When Jenny comes home, late at night, exhausted from the overtime she won’t get paid for, she only turns the one light on to cut through the gloom. The table lamp and her laptop screen offer the only illumination. She doesn’t turn the heating on either even though frost is starting to crinkle on the inside of her thin windows. She could afford it, really, but the last two months have been tight.

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David Marston Writes: Dear, John.

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Tuesday, 12 October 2010. It was an unseasonably bright Saturday morning when I disembarked the tube at St John’s Wood and wandered down the road reading the Guardian magazine as I went. I ambled along, chuckling at reading about Blake Morrison’s, experiences of fatherhood, zipping my way in-between the elderly men in long black gowns exiting the synagogue and feeling oddly comfortable in West London. 8216;It’s the...

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David Marston Writes: Brief Lives

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Tuesday, 30 June 2009. Lost in my own memories the hand that grabbed me outside the John Snow made me jump. 8216;Hey, sorry dude,’ the young man with the carefully sculpted facial hair beamed, ‘but can you take our picture? 8217; His smile was desperate to be infectious as he thrust an expensive looking digital slr into my hands before turning back to his mob. 8217; I asked ‘Someone’s birthday? Of the two girls wrapped a...

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David Marston Writes: The President and I.

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Wednesday, 21 January 2009. The President and I. This is the story of how I first met George W Bush. Or to be more precise, the tale of when I first took notice of him. He still doesn’t, to the best of my knowledge, have a clue who I am. I yawned down the steps and into the bright morning light reflecting off the crisp surface. Our bags had already been dumped in the snow. 8221; I asked. As we sat in the deserted cafe of...

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David Marston Writes: The cracks

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. In 1945 the country was at war, but by the summer it was a far off war. Half a world away, men still fought in the sweaty jungles, under the Pacific sun. Sons died every day, but maybe enough of a war was over. Churchill, confident that the cries of “we want Winston” would continue, called a snap election. Labour’s 1945 victory was against the odds, but it occurred for a variety of reasons. But pe...

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David Marston Writes: Hotel World

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Wednesday, 17 June 2009. By which, I mean that I have a deep sated loathing for every aspect of their prim, artificial suggestion of comfort and service – bile that threatens to boil up into an explosion of a television set through the window. Perhaps I’m being a little harsh. Everyone else had turned in early, but I couldn’t sleep. The room was too hot, the air too artificial. I had the air conditioning cr...Grumpily, I...

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David Marston Writes: Options for an unfinished ending.

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Passionate and informed.really demand to be read." - Pointless Philisophical Asides. Tuesday, 17 February 2009. Options for an unfinished ending. 8220;I am just about fed up,” said someone I work with as moisture dripped from his nose, “of being either cold, wet or miserable. When’s it going to end? 8220;We should have left with the others,” Jon said, fruitlessly lifting boxes of history up high. It was dissolving them from the inside out. The land of plenty had emptied in mere months. One or two bad...