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    all systems go!

    The very enjoyable short sabbatical is over and I am not only resolutely back, but definitely in at the deep end given the weather (with apologies to this weeks’ visitors – the temperature is something I can do little about in Scarborough since it’s about the only place I can regularly be found which lacks air conditioning). I will be…

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    going back to new york city…

    Shh! OK, it’s an auto publish, and technically I am Not Really Here. Or there, although I will be soon, and at some preposterous hour of the night which isn’t even appealing on UK time. Having unexpectedly whiled away eight and a half hours getting home from Glasgow on Sunday after what the website called a ‘person-hit-by-train incident’ at (where…

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    it’s beginning to look a lot like…

    Well after a couple of weeks which for a variety of reasons could only politely be described as fraught, virtually everything that needs doing is finally done and I’m preparing for this years’ Big Trip – yay! Presents have been bought/knitted and wrapped, cards are posted and Tesco.com have been issued with my Christmas demands (potatoes, mostly). Most importantly of…