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Posted on February 12, 2019 by yawnthepost

A pint of beer in Guy Fawke’s birthplace leads to a rumination on war and peace, life and death and a piece of cake.

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Edinburgh New Town July 18, 2019
Completed in 1828, the statue of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, dominates St Andrew Square. In 1846, Frederick Douglass, author, statesman, anti-slavery campaigner, visited Edinburgh. He would have seen that statue – but was he aware of Dundas’ role in delaying abolition? Do residents or visitors of the city realise Dundas amendment to William Wilberforce’s act […]
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Broadstairs June 2, 2019
John Buchan can’t stop thinking about ham. Alfred Hitchcock is frightened of eggs. Charles Dickens is hungry all the time. In Broadstairs I eat British chips and wonder where the seventy eight steps are now.
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Goldcliff May 5, 2019
I search for mesolithic footprints in the mudflats of the Severn Estuary, avoid a tsunami, then call upon Amy Adams, expert in alien linguistics, to decipher a chilling message.
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Hereford April 2, 2019
Scrumping back to Paradise: apples, wassailing and the history of cider.
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Bosworth Field March 2, 2019
An octopus searches for the location of a battle that took place in August, 1485. Facts are disputed. Five hundred years later the body of King Richard the Third is discovered in a social services car park in Leicester. The octopus studies the menu in the battlefield visitors’ centre and notices an absence of Welsh […]
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Papa Westray February 19, 2019
Westray and Papa Westray, far northern outposts of the British Isles, once a Viking colony, where the plaintive call of the curlew sounds over white beaches of the most extraordinary beauty.
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Haverfordwest February 12, 2019
Batman meets Gwen John in the home of my maternal ancestors. I eat some local cheese then experience megalithophobia with the supreme exponents of psych-sludge, Neolithic Axe Factory. (With thanks to the hallucinogenic imagination of Alexander Velky and the nuclear guitar of Tim Mortimer.)
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York Walls February 12, 2019
A pint of beer in Guy Fawke’s birthplace leads to a rumination on war and peace, life and death and a piece of cake.
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Tebay Services January 30, 2019
A waxed paper sauce pot paradise.
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Bass Rock January 26, 2019
An island off the east coast of Scotland, where gannets live within a stabbing circumference of each other.
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