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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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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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Chesterfield January 23, 2019
Apollo 8, the first colour TVs, asbestos, plague and Chesterfield’s twisted spire.
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Inner Farne January 18, 2019
A boat trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands escorted by a squadron of puffins.
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County Clare January 16, 2019
Bobby Casey, County Clare’s fiddling superstar.
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