Will it be tasteful?
People have asked me if I’m performing at the 2018 Fringe. The bad news is no. The good news is that I’ve just finished a draft of a new show I’ll be performing later this year. It will be tasteful.
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Jan
People have asked me if I’m performing at the 2018 Fringe. The bad news is no. The good news is that I’ve just finished a draft of a new show I’ll be performing later this year. It will be tasteful.
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Jan
I was at Salto Bossetti, Iguazu Falls, during my recent trip to Argentina. I first saw the bride and groom nearby. I didn’t think they’d end up here:
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Jan
My first trip to Europe was in winter because it was the only time I could go for three months. Although I wouldn’t do that now, it had several advantages. One was that we could be more spontaneous. When five of us, in a tiny hire car, got to Exeter, we thought – no! Instead, we…
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Jan
Before Skype, before prepaid calling cards, before mobile phone plans offered free international calls, before Samsung S8s, Messenger, the Book of Face and WhatsApp … on my first trip to the United Kingdom, the way to call home involved a cold phone booth and a bag of coins, or only a few coins and saying,…
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Jan
It’s actually pronounced ‘Mor-ONN’, but even still… The suburb is the tenth stop on the Sarmiento railway line that tourists rarely take… …though the municipality takes in a larger area.
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Dec
The past week in Perth saw an outpouring of nostalgia for the WACA Ground, which may well have just staged its last cricket Test match. I was there on Day 4, and after donating a gold coin, for just enough of Day 5 to see the Ashes change back into Australian hands. In 2013, when…
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Dec
These pictures prove I’ve gone there! Here are the capitals (national, state and provincial, etc) I’ve been to since I was last in Canberra (in chronological order): Sydney Melbourne Perth Adelaide Buenos Aires Hobart La Plata Ciudad del Este Puerto Natales Punta Arenas Ushuaia Singapore (to change planes) London Munich Richmond (to change buses) Washington DC…
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Dec
The Madame was, of course, Tussaud. The year was 1991. Some years later, I wrote a tasteful novel. One problem with writing fiction is that you can’t always base your stories on real events, because some things are so out there, your readers can only believe them if they’re told that they’re true. Imagine a…
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Dec
