Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Rest is Silence/Politics (delete as appropriate)

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Strength to strength

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Known Paapa coming up seven years now.
Monday, November 13, 2023

My life

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Wasn't well enough to go to this yesterday. Don't think I'll be well enough to go to the theatre tomorrow.
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Getting Sentimental over you

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I glanced a reference on these spindrift pages yesterday about going to the Jazz Voice Opening Gala on Friday. If you click the title above,...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Ah'm jess sayin' is all

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  Yesterday's poem was by John Burnside. He won The David Cohen Prize for Literature the day before yesterday, only a fortnight after m...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Change of pace?

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When all the books are gone, there will be nothing to remember but a single porch light at the far end of the road where something live is m...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

8:54 to spare Prime Minister?

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A crumb of comfort from the, largely confected, row, and a timely reminder this is not a party political issue. Telegraph Pro-Palestinian Ar...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Whatever it is, I'm against it

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METROPOLITAN POLICE NEWS - 7 NOVEMBER 2023 19:40 The Metropolitan Police Service will protect Armistice and Remembrance events in London thi...
Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Fitzcarraldo Editions

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Jacques Testard and Fitzcarraldo staff in their Deptford office  Fitzcarraldo Editions is an independent publisher specialising in contempo...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Short but sweet

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 Rayburn is flying in from Florida on 15 November. I do hop he can come to Cork with us, the following weekend.
Sunday, November 05, 2023

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth

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Cousin Ria has offered me Aunt Philo's ticket for Lear Lear this afternoon. I'm very grateful but I can't make as I am in Wales....
Saturday, November 04, 2023

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

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Sean at 1pm yesterday the Vince and Michele took me to The Merchant of Venice 193 6  at the New Theatre, Cardiff in the evening. Never mind ...
Friday, November 03, 2023

The Not Ready for Prime Time Players

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The extent to which I have succeeded is debatable, but I genuinely have worked hard ( passim ) on trying to understand generative AI and La...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Dannie Abse: Return to Cardiff

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I hope to be off for a long family weekend visit later today. ‘Hometown’; well, most admit an affection for a city: grey, tangled streets I ...