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Contemporary Irish Writing

April 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We attended the virtual launch of a virtual resource from our kitchen last night. This was the official launch of ContemporaryIrishWriting.ie which ‘features books written in both English and Irish, ranging from fiction and poetry to memoir, young adult fiction and children’s literature.’ 

Avignon this day 2009 – seems like a time and place far, far away.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: contemporaryirishwriting, theworldwideweb, walkingcommentary

No Way To Rome (Yet)

April 1, 2021 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

‘We should have walked to Buxton today. It should have been the first stage of the trip to Rome … We’ll do it same time next year .. it’ll be 18 daily hikes before we can catch the Dover ferry to cross to France. And then, well, then it’ll be a mere 96 daily hikes to get to dinner in Rome’ or so I wrote this day last year.

Flawed envelope design.
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March Magnolias

March 31, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘March, the month when magnolias rule our world’ wrote Thomas Pakenham in The Company of Trees, a gift last December that inspired me to test his opinion.

Our local 5 km pandemic travel radius is coast-cropped. We only had access to 37 km2 for exercising and magnolia hunting. I stopped counting after finding over 80 specimens in 26 days of peering into suburban gardens.

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Filed Under: Photozines Tagged With: chapbook, thomas pakenham

March Movies

March 30, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

March has been a month of many memorable things including three movies. You may dismiss the idea that an octopus could be dreaming of electric sheep but you shouldn’t ignore these three utterly different expositions of the cinematographic arts.

Horses with wings might fly me back to Paris one day soon.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, cannes film festival, jérémy clapin, little moon animation, movies, netflix, peter debruge

Offsetting and Printing

March 29, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I used to print photos as scarves on fabric but guess what? The supply of sustainable fabrics such as lyocell became erratic even before the pandemic. My small start-up business faltered and was suspended when the last two week turnaround took order almost two months to fulfil.

  • Fountain Slates I
  • Tate Modern Lights
  • Bathroom Tableau
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, bracket books ireland, carbon emissions, fabhappy, nasa

Ants

March 28, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard of Robert Gregg of Colorado? He’s connected to the eighth wonder of the world, in St Petersburg, in my mind at least.

Gregg died in 1991, famous among ant lovers for having written the seminal book The Ants of Colorado published in 1963. He identified and was allowed name many ant species in Colorado during his decades of searching them out.

Goldfinches waiting in the rain and sunshine ahead of a rainbow.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: amber, ants, booklink, photography, rainbow, robert gregg, travel

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