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22/02/2014 19:08
Here's your chance to have a piece of work featured on The Peanut Society of Lucubrators blog, whether you've guest blogged before or just have a bright idea that fits our themes. It's been a slower period on the blog recently as our writer been focusing on making progress with his novel....
The Extinction of Choice – A Dinner Party
11/02/2014 12:30
(Illustration of the addictive state of confusion in the dinner party aftermath.... a curious feeling with a name put to it)
Eating a cool dollop I'm easy, but “porridge can be cooked just one way more,” says the gas in the shop, ringing triumphant in thick bottle glass. The...
Saltaire: A Slice of Artistic England
18/11/2013 22:01
West Yorkshire, a few miles outside Leeds in one direction, Bradford centre in another. The scene is a huge old textile mill on the edge of a train track. Fifteen minutes from the city it feels almost clandestine. The sky is dark grey and a biting wind keeps people inside; but...
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10/11/2013 12:25Reverse culture shock: Identity in the UK
24/09/2013 22:30
Standing at the exit of a large supermarket car park I'm trying to hitch a ride in my home country, a style of transport that's rarely used here. Some say I'd have more success if a girl was with me; we'll see. I'm faithful that people here aren't as fearful as they say they are. You're...
The Dental Stock Market, Hungary
12/09/2013 22:46
Getting one's teeth scaled and polished in Budapest is only possible after swallowing some amusing negotiations with the dentist in front of an audience in the reception area.
Me: “Beszél valaki angolul?”
Them: “Yes.”
And from then the conversation goes like this:
“How much to...
Snoring in Warsaw – The Sound of Ripped Beds
19/08/2013 10:49
Warsaw is a slow down city. Even the nightlife is relaxing, I think to myself with elbows stuck to a pavement table in the Polish Chelsea. Arriving at night acquainted me with the sleepy elegance that suspends every pedestrian. Dainty, muscular buildings administer a full dose of...
Middle Living – Robinson Crusoe's Dad
10/08/2013 14:44
Instincts can arrive without warning, and we might naturally seek and receive advice about them. We're human after all, sometimes uncertain yet benefitting from a stirred mixture of our own experience and that of the people we're linked with. "The middle state – the upper station of low...
3 Capital Cities in 3 Days - An Update
06/08/2013 22:48
Hi folks, it has been a mad period lately, but now I'm back in the writing seat to bring you new, more regular material and updates on my antics. I'm fresh out of charging through three capital cities in three days - sleeping across the spectrum in a questionable bed, on an airport floor,...
Rooftop Chairs – Absorbing Tel Aviv
18/07/2013 20:21
Impressions are worm-like, they burrow and get lost, prevaricate. The following are the sensations of the lull while a wanderer forms an impression of somewhere.
The Middle East. I'm slumped on a crackled, ribbed felt rooftop. Brown pools of runoff water collect in the dips, seeping...
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