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On Scratchcards: The Correct Way To Scratch
[There is an audio version of this essay available here and on YouTube] Scratchcards – the most worldly and humble of the lesser gambles. Although I am far from being one of the people who are...
View ArticleWhy ‘Time To Pretend’ is the Greatest Song You Must Never Listen To
[Sunny day out. Contemplating drinks on the doorstep. Got no work to do. Both good thing and bad thing. Like life. Contradictions make my stomach feel unsettled. Great. Can’t drink now. Article...
View ArticleThe Not-Quite-Underclass of ‘Sheila’
* I once went to a pub in Battersea with my girlfriend of the time, who had worked behind the bar. She introduced me to her friends who were working that night and to some of the regulars. I met a...
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On Craic: I’m Telling You, There Is No Word For ‘Yes’ Or ‘No’ In Irish
This essay is mostly about the ‘craic’, not to be confused with the ‘cráic’ At school I disliked learning Irish. Mostly because the teacher was stern and angry. When I discovered that he moonlighted as...
View ArticleTop 10 of Everything in 2013
What a year. What a bumper, crazy year. We saw a lot of strange and scary events take place across the world, from civil unrest to unusual animal behaviour. But there was also a lot happening in the...
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How (Not) To Write About Videogames
It is a question that has tortured many. Just how do you write about videogames? Well, do not worry. Writing about videogames is easy. All you have to do is avoid cliché. So, here are some words and...
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I’m Moving To Costa Rica. Here Are Some Things I Wrote In 2015
I’m leaving London. Bye! When I first arrived in the Imperial City, with the gleaming eyes of a child, I stayed on the floor in my sister’s flat and also, periodically, in the bath tub of my aunt’s...
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Good things I wrote in 2016
I spent Christmas amid the dog hairs and beer bottles of my ancestral home, a place and time which would have given a more pensive mind the chance to reflect on a dauntless year, but gave my mind the...
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Good things I wrote in 2017
I discovered the bookworms too late. They had eaten through a large cross-section of World War Z and several Spanish language text books, so I could at least tell their tastes were varied. Still,...
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What I Did In 2021
It is minus many degrees outside, the temperature of another planet. Or of Canada, the realm to which I now inexplicably owe allegiance. It exists as a vortex of concrete and ice crystals, a climate...
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