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Continue reading →: In ZaërI’m spending a week on Laurent’s permaculture farm in the gentle mountains of the Zaër region in the province of Benslimane roughly between Casablanca and Rabat. It’s very much my sort of place. It has a rough and muddy track that crosses rivers to get in an out, 5 kilometres…
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Continue reading →: Come Down To A Lower Place by Seoyoung Yi
translated from the Korean by Janet Hong – published October 2025 This is the second in a series of books called Lovecraft Reanimated published by the Stockport publisher, Honford Star. I’ve also read The Call of the Friend, the first in the series, which is a short graphic novel, not…
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Continue reading →: Double Room by Anne Sénès
translated from the French by Alice Banks – published October 2025 I have never used a virtual assistant. It’s not the technology that puts me off, in fact the reason I don’t use such help is difficult to pin down. Perhaps it’s just my generation. I’ve come across two good…
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Continue reading →: Detective Kien: The Headless Horror
Vietnam 2025 – folk horror, crime, historic I can’t recall watching many Vietnamese films before, if any. On the face of it, this is a solid mystery story with hints of the supernatural. A Detective of the Judge arrives to a remote community in north Vietnam in the nineteenth century,…
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Continue reading →: Express through MarrakeshI’m in the Zaër hills in the north west of Morocco. The landscape is one of gentle hills, much greener than further south in the winter at least, and much more suitable for outdoor activities. I’ve found a permaculture farm (agriculture that regenerates the land) that takes guests in rooms…
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Continue reading →: SRD Fourth Annual Film Festival – Part Two
No Other Choice The Director Park Chan-Wook, master of black comedy, has made something here characteristic of his unique style. His previous work includes Oldboy, Decision To Leave and The Handmaiden. It may appear to be a lively caper of an employee losing his job, then trying to get it…
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Continue reading →: Turning back North..Having spent almost three weeks in the Souss-Massa region around the Atlantic Coast I left this morning to head back north, by way of the mountains. I had stayed at the Gite Forest Kasbah in the small village of Timsal for a week. It has excellent hiking opportunities from the…
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Continue reading →: River by Laura Vinogradova
translated from the Latvian by Kaija Straumanis We are introduced to Rute through her sister Dina. Dina, lonely and struggling, haunted by the traumatic childhood the two endured, sees her younger sister as spoiled; Rute is happily married and lives in a spacious house with heated floors. Then the story…
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Continue reading →: Old Berber Trails just off the Ocean coastIn the Allocamp workshop in Agadir they found a gas leak in my fridge, tested it again, and found a second. I can’t imagine how that has happened, but at least it is under repair. I took it in on Monday, 29th December, and was hoping it would be ready…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias.
Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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