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Weeping Song
Nick Cave is one of those rare artists who can make his teenage fans feel like they are deep and tortured and special, while also being great for a jolly good sing-along. But it has to be the right...
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Bookshop
I have, in partial explanation for my extended absence, returned to my old job of managing a bookstore. It’s all been a bit strange; comfortingly familiar and weirdly unfamiliar at the same time. The...
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Bookclubs.
As promised, I am putting up a couple of posts that I had written for a putative blog for the bookshop I manage. I have written a few, but haven’t been able to go live with my blog yet. I need to...
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Why you should read to your children.
Don’t worry; I’m not going back to that whole post a day thing. Like I said the other day, I had a bunch of posts lying around, so I decided to pop a couple of them on here to test them out. This will...
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Party People
The girl-child (let’s call her “V” again) was all aflutter a couple of weeks ago. She had received an invitation to her friend Kondi’s birthday party. A purple and pink invitation. And purple and pink,...
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Birthday sex.
“BIRTHDAY SEX! BIRTHDAY SEX!” The words are cutting through the sleepy haze of an early Sunday morning like an icebreaker ploughing through a frozen sea. Birthday sex? Oh, dear. Here we go again. About...
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Bieber Pants
Something most distressing happened to me the other day. I went shopping. For pants. I don’t often go shopping for pants. Throughout most of my life, pants have just appeared out of the ether and then...
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The Gym Diary. Day One.
Hello again. I, as is evidenced by the writing of this post, have decided to turn over a new leaf. This is something everyone should do once every couple of years. It’s good for the soul. What you do...
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Imagination Could Make a Man of You
I got myself into a little bit of trouble with Mrs. 23thorns the other day. She objects, it would seem, to having well educated children. Apparently I am not allowed to teach them anymore. All I had...
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The Cabinet of Curiosities (part 1)
(the part with no cabinet of curiosities in it) Should you ever visit the 23thorns household, please be careful about what you touch. Not that your touching our stuff would bother us; we gave up any...
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