The Peanut Society of Lucubrators

An Upside-Down Initiative

by writer Martin A. Green

 

Introduction to The Peanut Society of Lucubrators

This blog features regular eclectic articles centred around travel, mindsets in new places, adapting and improvising abroad, literary surrealism, impressions and new perspectives, ideas for living, seeking out leftfield spots, insights into artistic and literary lives, alternative career inspiration, the unexpected, economic ingenuity, the miscellaneous. In short, this wide-ranging blog has something for everyone!

 

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Reverse 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...

What makes people Stare, and why?

24/06/2013 20:56
What makes people stare...? The same thing that impels people to read? That special hunger for the latent details of our counterparts; of strangers breezing by, destitutes and microaerophiles. The washed-out glimpse, like a running light slowing to a rising smell, peels back into a longer stare,...

The Soft Drink: Nectarine & Rose

09/06/2013 17:55
    THE SOFT DRINK VIDEO   With soft drinks it's all about presentation... and ultroneousness   The supplier of the rose said "It's beautiful"   The juice boasts a fifty percent fruit content and a massive barcode    Click the image above to watch this...

Eggboxx.com – The New Social Media Craze (Live)

29/05/2013 17:27
  Like every other journalist I'd wanted to interview him all week, since I read the headline: 'Spread yourself thick again. Have your friends with you (up to a limit of ten).' And now I'm here, after the press conference, at the back of a car park whose entrance is guarded by a battered...
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About the Author: Martin Green is a British writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a UK employment law specialist. He is currently busy building a new international property blog, and has run The Peanut Society of Lucubrators blog since 2012. His next book for publication will be his completed debut novel, spanning eight European countries, about two men's struggle to find full-force friendship in our times. 

Twitter: @peanutluc and @pwithconfidence