Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Are there deserts in Syria?

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"It's perfectly safe, " said the man; "people cross it every day." He had a beard so who were we to argue. An...
Sunday, 19 August 2012

How we'd snigger at the Very Proper Gander!

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We would. Snigger that is. After all we're so much more sophisticated than in times past. Not so very long ago there was a ve...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Ray Bradbury remembered...

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**** “The October Country” is perhaps the most frightening book I ever read – forget all the jumping out from behind things, zombies and...
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Friday, 6 January 2012

Richard and The Money Tree

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**** Richard straightened his papers, placed his pen back in its case and checked that the paper clip part of his desk tidy was properl...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

Myth...

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We make a great deal of myth and myth-making. But only in condemnation, in the denial of myth. Yet myth is more important than we think....
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Tuesday, 2 August 2011

The Giant Malaysian Killer Chicken - story and the limits of skepticism

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Readers may not be aware but Bolton Abbey – more specifically Strid Wood - is the last known habitat of the Giant Malaysian Killer Chi...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010

A little more on Whimsy....

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I am – as my more avid and assiduous readers will know – something of a fan of whimsy. If we’re allowed to use such a base word as ‘fan’ to...
Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: The Moon is more useful than the Sun

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I had planned writing a piece on the Mullah Nasruddin for some while. Partly because I think that our understanding of Islam is so cruelly c...
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