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Fig. 1 Welcome to Harold Hill ... where even the local pub is in ruins Some readers might recall a post from 2016 in which I described the s...

Young deer seen trotting past a parked car outside my house (Harold Hill, Essex - 23 Nov, 2024)     I.    As much as I might like to, I don...

Ghost Rider (SA/2023)   I know there are those who will wax lyrical about the violent beauty of such, but, actually, there's always so...

My local boozer, The Pompadours -  and some Lawrence scholars find the Sun Inn, Eastwood, a bit rough ...     Harold Hill is a long way remo...

Cavafy by Lorenzo Mattotti  The New Yorker (March 16, 2009) My next-door neighbour - the man at number 6 - came from another la...

Were Hans Christian Andersen writing his tale of The Little Match Girl today, rather than in 1845, then I imagine she'd probabl...

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A Trace of Feathers: Derridean Ornithological Absence   (SA/2019) I. Yesterday was witness to an act of savage beauty as a sparro...

You pays your money and you takes your choice ... I. While it's probably safe to say that the philosopher Stephen Alexander...

D. H. Lawrence by Fabrizio Cassetta (2015) fineartamerica.com It begins, writes Lawrence, the moment you set foot back ...

Stephen Alexander (2016) Ghost Town , by The Specials, was a great punk single and, thirty-five years later, it continues to powerfu...

This could be heaven ... Having moved back to my childhood home, it's forgivable to be feeling a little nostalgic for a time and ...