Monthly Archives: August 2011

we’ve moved to baroqueinhackney.com

… and with that, she packed her bags and was gone. The old house remained much as it had been, for she could never bear to dismantle the scene of so many happy times, and indeed visitors in months to … Continue reading

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My new website’s down! (but at least we are all black)

Okay, well I have made a beautiful new website, populated it with many wonderful things, and begun to sort out some mysterious problem with the page links. But the database is going weird, refusing permissions etc, something about .htaccess, and … Continue reading

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The meaning of life 2

The great James Thurber. This was one of my very favourite cartoons when I was but a child; and I had a lot of favourite cartoons. I particularly loved that Thurber allowed the disenchantment to belong to a little girl… … Continue reading

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The week that was

Sorry to do this to you. It will be testified, and possibly even in the comments by the person who made me watch it, that I can’t stand Alien. Least of all this ridiculous, boys’-own, gross, grotesque, horrific, silly, genre, … Continue reading

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You have to live with the common people

I think it might be time to bring this one back out again. It started as a bit of banter on Facebook, as everything seems to do now, about this 19-year-old daughter of a millionaire businessman, who’s been arrested for … Continue reading

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