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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14 Travel-Inspiring Quotes from Literature

28/07/2014 20:03
  Here are some lesser known observations from a few of my favourite writers that are primed to get the mind racing towards the road. In a step away from the usual, more linear Twainesque travel quotes that we often encounter, I hope that these buried gems burn longer in your imagination....

The Abandoned Hospital: Hidden Bars in Belgrade, Serbia

21/06/2014 16:54
  I discovered these bars gradually while living in the Dorćol district of old Belgrade (Serbia's “Manhattan”). So this article, which I've been sitting on until now, is a product of a time when I called this city home for a while. The establishments I've written about are barely advertised –...

An English Seaside Town: Burnham-on-Sea

24/05/2014 21:53
  I'm in Burnham-on-Sea, thought to be a stomping ground for swollen white-van-men and the whispers of pensioners, and where the town's name is pleasingly embossed in gold on the victorianesque black litter bins. Peculiarly though, this largely overlooked Somerset seaside town doesn't...

Biography of a Broken Man - Character Precursor

04/04/2014 17:44
  He enjoys newspaper and blowing glass, and no one gives a shit about him. The sight of his car makes him dribble diarrhoea like the washing powder allowance. One day, he dreamed, he'd move to a house full of sub-standard furniture. But he forgot about the idea and festered, like...

Wanted: Flâneur (The Anti-Job Advert)

15/03/2014 20:03
  Ref# 9835 - Flâneur Location: European cities beginning with P and B, you decide Industry: Miscellaneous Salary: Unquantified – as much as you request & require (plus headgear allowance), bearing in mind that we don't condone the infinite quest for wealth. Choose carefully. Hours:...

British Public Libraries - Dusty Daytimes for the Job-free

12/03/2014 10:36
  I spent Monday there, with the crammed-in people upstairs. Clinging to their seats reading aviation magazines or angling the head forward into computer screens, sucking direct static down their spinal cords – all two dozen cocked over like used drinking straws in a half-height...

Back, and open for submissions

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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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