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First Cheese

March 22, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Caveat emptor: today’s musings may suffer from sleep deprivation.

I woke just before first cheese. It was light but overcast, very grey. Dublin Port was handling at least two cargo ships, one leaving, the other arriving. My mind was jumbled. Outgoing stolen cars and animal flesh? Incoming vaccines and fruit pickers? Pigeon toes above the bedroom ceiling scratched me wider awake. I picked up a book but it was too early for the whores who were grabbing fistfuls of jewels in the hallway as they left 738 Keizersgracht. I changed books. It was better to be reading of pancakes whose menu depictions tasted better than the real thing. Probably.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brexit, dog, john brockman, mary robison, photo, richard h thaler, tim harford, travel

Dog Walk HDR II

January 10, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This day eleven years ago, trapped for the weekend in Uxbridge by heavy snow, I thought I’d walk to Windsor for lunch. Some 16 km and five hours later, I was cold, tired and very hungry. I’d missed Sunday lunch by a few hours so I settled for a dinner before catching the train back. But trains that serve Windsor don’t go by Uxbridge so it took a few hours to return. I’m glad I did the walk because the Berkshire countryside was utterly transformed in a way that I only saw that once.

Deer appeared as I skirted the M25 along the treed banks of the Colne Brook.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: dog, hdr, photos, travel, walking

Dog Walk HDR I

January 8, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Like all dogs, Gus is getting slower as he ages. His main pump is failing; slowly but inexorably. If you accept that there is there is a relationship between the mammalian heart rate and overall life expectancy, you will already to know to expect late life heart issues for otherwise healthy pets. This may say nothing about their enthusiasm. For example, Gus loves the snow and today, he was out and about, running on snow and slipping on ice. He was segmenting and ranging on familiar paths, back and forth, excited by the snow while I was taking photographs. Today’s ambition, for me, was to take a series of high dynamic range photos of relatively mundane subjects as I walked quickly around our local hill.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: Bill Bryson, booklink, dog, gallery, photography, walking

Freedom Brings Anxiety

October 28, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Our media are showing restaurants and bars, cinemas and sports. There is an emphasis on we are missing. On the face of it, the global media appear to be pandering to and reinforcing our anxieties.

It’s that time of year again!
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: architecture, dog, fabhappy, freedom, photos, renzo piano, simonscarves, soren kierkegaard, the shard

Confusing Times

July 4, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Picture us on a zoom call. Something you probably do yourself. We have a weekly Friday evening chat with a friend about what’s not being achieved while the plague keeps us incarcerated so that our health isn’t compromised by our underlying conditions. You know, the underlying implication that our own medical conditions are the cause of any public health failures.

One Friday in particular, I learned that Trumpian delusions may be as infectious as anything that’s out there.

We’d been zooming about the books we’re reading, the news and at the point of swapping recommendations on TV programs we might enjoy watching. I recounted seeing coverage of a dreadfully lax Trump rally that sent all the wrong public health messages.

There’s a lot to be read in lockdowns.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, dog, irish times, martyn turner, paula reid, photos, zoom

Gus after Oscar

June 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Gus has started to worry a spot on his leg. He lies on the floor and dozes between bouts of licking the spot clean. The same spot gets licked over and over again. He’s snoring at my feet as I type about this worry for a dog who is 14 years old.

Tales of two dogs are probably not what you’d expect now. However, these are stories of a past and future I can’t change. Colum McCann’s Apeirogon has made me reflective, sad and now, even a worry spot on the dog’s leg makes me worry that I will somehow let him down.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, colum mccann, dog, euthanasia, photos, vet, walking

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