Looking back, I’ve twice blogged about visiting Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester – the home of the Lancashire team – oops! – but I’ve never posted on going to Headingley Cricket Club in Leeds, Yorkshire, on the same trip when I was twenty-two. I do have Lancastrian ancestors, so maybe I’m subconsciously biased. Or…
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Aug
In the Canary Islands, drivers stopped for me when I used them. They didn’t in Argentina, unless they were at a set of traffic lights and had to stop anyway.
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Aug
It rained in Perth on 28 of July’s 31 days: the most since 1946. The total amount of rainfall was the most in July since 1995. Today, though, I took the train to Grant Street station, walked along Grant Street to North Cottesloe Beach, and on the sand or the footpath… … down to Leighton…
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Aug
It isn’t very often that you get a beautiful beach to yourself on a Saturday. But I did today at Smith’s Beach.
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Aug
In 2007 and 2017, I saw the Circuito Cultural Barracas perform street theatre in Buenos Aires. The barrio of Barracas felt like an old movie set.
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Aug
Through no fault of her own, Naomi Osaka posed a no-win question for the organisers of the 2021 Olympics. (I know we’re supposed to say 2020, but really!) Should she light the cauldron? If they’d said yes, they were giving the honour to someone who’d only lived in Japan for three years. If they’d said…
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Jul
Don’t you find that sometimes when you go to something to support a friend, it’s like – wow! I should have gone anyway! What else have I been missing out on? A new calibre: From Disability to Ability is described as ‘[a]n energetic array of paintings, digital works, sculpture and photography by 16 leading artists…
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Jul
… you knew that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was a Broadway Flop musical before you knew it was the address of the White House. It’s briefly mentioned in The Street Where I Live – the 1978 memoir of writer and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The book centres on his three most famous works with composer Frederick…
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Jul
