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London
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Back in August (where has this year gone? Hours in London with our beloved Washingtonians – friends turned family – and boy, did we pack those hours to the brim. To begin: Green Park, boughs kissing above the walkways, a violinist plucking notes from the gloom. Buckingham Palace (munching our sandwiches on the fountain – why yes, we did eat lunch with Her Majesty! Glum faces as departure neared…. One last photograph of all of us, together. Photos) on film, digital and iPhone by me and Ashley. No, just me?
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Poem For The Weekend #61
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Poem For The Weekend #61. You give me flowers resembling Chinese lanterns. For yellow. You give me. You give me lemons softened in brine and you give me cuttlefish ink. You give me all 463 stairs of Brunelleschi’s dome. You give me seduction and you let me give it back to you. You give me an apartment full of morning smells toasted bagel and black. Coffee and the freckled lilies in the vase on the windowsill. You give me 24-across. You give me flowers resembling moths’ wings. With their feet on the chairs.
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Life in Regensburg
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Bright Spots The Bavarian Edition. Signs of the season on a solo walk to the river. I ended up here, looking out onto the houses sat on the island I once called home. Geraniums beside the Danube. Christl is the most wonderful, understated pianist. And she makes pretty fabulous. Too (This one was of the lemon and hazelnut variety.). Wandering the streets of Munich. Ending up beside the river Isar. Autumnal posies at the. I wanted to scoop up armfuls for their scent alone. Middot; Been There. 1 Regensburg ...
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A City Of Shifting Light
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A City Of Shifting Light. It is pouring in London this evening, a hard cold wind smashes the raindrops against the roof. If I believed in signs, I’d say it were a sign I should up sticks and move to Edinburgh drizzly, saturate, inclement Edinburgh, a city shaped by chill winds from the East. 8220;A city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” (*Alexander McCall Smith). Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Thank yo...
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Politics
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Women’s March, London 21.01.2017. Illustration via jointheuproar.com. I march for the forgotten, for the great women behind all the great men, for the women who have died alone or uncommemorated. I march for all of the women who have raised children on their own. I march for all the little girls and young women coming of age in the era of Donald Trump, who believe they can never be President, or fly to the moon, or write books as well as men can, or save lives, or do whatever it is they aspire to. I marc...
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The Best Holiday Reads
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The Best Holiday Reads. In honour of an upcoming thirteen-hour plane ride, I thought I’d share a selection of my favourite holiday reads – books that are inherently readable, engaging without being overly weighty, marked by characters you fall in love with. Please share your favourites with me so I can race to the library/bookshop before my flight to Singapore later this week! ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, Anthony Doerr. AMERICAN WIFE, Curtis Sittenfeld. BROOKLYN, Colm Toibin. SOMEONE, Alice McDermott.
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Germany
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Bright Spots The Bavarian Edition. Signs of the season on a solo walk to the river. I ended up here, looking out onto the houses sat on the island I once called home. Geraniums beside the Danube. Christl is the most wonderful, understated pianist. And she makes pretty fabulous. Too (This one was of the lemon and hazelnut variety.). Wandering the streets of Munich. Ending up beside the river Isar. Autumnal posies at the. I wanted to scoop up armfuls for their scent alone. Middot; Been There. Sunflowers fr...
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Food
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Let’s-Pretend-It’s-Still-Summer Quiche. We ate our slices warm, on plates balanced on our knees in front of the Great British Bake-Off Final and it did not disappoint (both the quiche and the bake-off’s last hurrah.) The only thing better than watching people making pastry is eating it yourself, right? To quiches and Nadiya. To misquote Ms Hussain, you can make this quiche and (I sincerely hope) you will. 8211; 1 roll of shortcrust (or, if you are more patient than I, feel free to make your own). Combine...
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Asia
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Singapore The Southern Ridges. It is with good, indeed excellent, reason that Singaporeans call their home the ‘city within a garden’. Despite its public image as a manicured, sterile skyscraperdom, the city-state is also the greenest city in Asia thanks to its first Prime Minister, the fabled Lee Kuan Yew, and his vision of transforming the then-developing country into a Garden City. Suspended 36m above the ground below. It felt exceptionally removed from the lively, ever-bustling mosaic of the Central ...
