The slow motion train crash that is the Eurozone is happening before us. Berlusconi is finally gone – but is he really gone? Greece is trying to hold it together, while Germany holds out on measures which might pull them all out of a hole. The EU has dramatically reduced growth projections but was that […]
October 29, 2011
I am sitting in a clean house. Bliss! The day has been spent vacuuming and washing floors, tidying and generally doing the purging of all things grimy from the house. There is nothing like having a good old clean-out! And now as I take a breath before our dinner guests arrive, I am thinking about […]
October 13, 2011
If you read the news from the States, the The Occupy Wall Street movement, beginning with a sit-in at Wall Street, is acting as a touch-paper for widespread anger at the people, institutions and decision-making that has led the US into a spiral of economic despair. This is clearly nagging at something deep within the […]
October 10, 2011
Yesterday I happily wrote my blog about London – about the morphology of London. I talked about two Londons – one based around the ancient routes between London’s villages, and the other based on newer ways to traverse London. I talked about how these two cultures, geographies and experiences could be two different worlds. Next […]
October 9, 2011
I drove today for the first time in five months. I drove in a city I have barely driven in before. Today is Sunday. A day when people used to choose to go for a drive. A Sunday Drive. Having hired a car, my partner and I set out on on our Sunday Drive. We […]
September 29, 2011
The sound is everywhere. In every crevice, bouncing off the walls, the windows, the carriage floor, its roof. Each body seems to vibrate with sound – held together by thin skin and clothing. To guard against the buffeting I close my eyes, finding an indeterminate place, a waiting room of sorts. When I dare open […]
November 10, 2011
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