Many thanks to Helen for pointing out this Anyone for gramping? piece by Annie Ferguson in The Independent today. I have to agree with Helen about the verb gramping sounding a little too like it involves grandparents, which isn’t a terrible idea although doubt I’d be able to convince either of my parents to...
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I couldn’t help being reminded by this pic below on FlickR of the camping paradox Dr Terry Young raises in his recent piece On Camping and Its Equipment, about how ‘what began as a desire to “rough it” far removed from the urban environment developed… into a competing desire for comfort that ironically replicated...
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I met Ivan this morning for a ‘board meeting’ at the Fiveways Deli, which involved hobbling up Ditchling Road as it turns out that I have thrombophlebitis: can’t tell you how old it made me feel to hear that’s what the problem with my leg has been. Hope my days of climbing up Ditchling...
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