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11/02/2019:

• A review of Olijfje by Helga Ruebsamen

  "Helga Ruebsamen was born to a German father and a Dutch mother in the Dutch East Indies. Her family was in the Netherlands when the Second World War broke out, and was unable to return home..." More

• A guest review of L'ordre du jour by Eric Vuillard

  "I read this Goncourt Prizewinning work in the original French, in which it is entitled L'ordre du jour. This term can also be rendered as 'The Agenda', which, as I hope to show, might in some respects be a better translation..." More

• What sort of thing happens on a Thursday? Now you can find out with the "Days of Week" Photos Statistics widget:

  

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Wharfedale

Cambridge

Fens

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28/01/2019:

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Gunpowder Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex

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22/01/2019:

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Wales

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13/01/2019:

• A review of Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend

  "I continue my non-chronological journey through Adrian Mole's adult diaries. The Wilderness Years was the first full volume of Mole's journals to be published after the narrator hit his twenties, and Sue Townsend had the challenge of supplanting the humour of the first two books, which derived substantially from their naive teenage perspective, to a more sophisticated adult context..." More

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Chevin

A grey day in Leicestershire

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05/01/2019:

A review of Titaantjes by Nescio

"JHF Grönloh was a Dutch businessman who secretly wrote short works of fiction and published them under the pen name of Nescio (Latin: "I don't know"). He is famous in the Netherlands, but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world - hardly surprising since no English translations of his work existed until 2012..." More

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04/01/2019:

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West Yorkshire

Abortive kayak surfing, East Yorkshire

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30/12/2018:

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Derbyshire, Part 1

Ilkley Moor

Derbyshire, Part 2

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26/12/2018:

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Paddling in Durham and Cumbria - GoPro photos added

Thaxted, Essex

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20/12/2018:

A review of Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend

"It's autumn 2002, the New Labour Government is threatening war on Iraq, and Adrian Mole has nervously cancelled a holiday in Cyprus after Tony Blair's announcement that Iraq could pound the island with weapons of mass destruction within forty-five minutes. Eternally naive, Mole writes to the Prime Minister asking for proof of the claim, required by the travel agency to redeem his deposit of £57.10..." More

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