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Continue reading →: The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
American non-fiction – Published 2005 The book begins with a mystery, a beachcombing scientist discovers a washed up kayak on the shore of an uninhabited Queen Charlotte island and begins to collect a few of its parts, then to further discover scattered camping gear and other equipment that lend him…
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Continue reading →: Nosferatu
The cinematography is impressive but any sense of mystery is absent; there are no twists here, we know what happens in the end. Some films don’t need a remake. Especially this one. Murnau’s silent film, 103 years previously, said it all, pardon the pun. I wonder in 103 more years…
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Continue reading →: Vaazhai, Vermiglio & Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
International Film Festival Christmas 2024 in the Van Vaazhai – India 2024 This is a Tamil drama set in a rural village in the south of India based around the lives of a 12 year old boy, Sivanandan, who just about balances his school life with the local work, carrying…
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Continue reading →: Days of the Alva ValleyI’m going to be in the Alva valley, most likely at the campervan area by the river, and next to the village of Barril de Alva, for a couple of weeks. After the dog attack last Sunday I needed to get the dressing changed on my hand on Tuesday at…
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Continue reading →: An extended stay in the Serra do AçorEarly on Sunday morning up at the Chapel, just after breakfast two cars pulled up for their drivers to exchange vehicles. They had three dogs with them, the two smaller ones came over to be friendly with Roja. Soon after the other, a male fifty kilo mastiff came over and…
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Continue reading →: We Do Not Part by Han Kang
translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris Kyungha, a writer suffering from migraines and stomach aches, receives an urgent communication from her friend, Inseon, who recently left her career as a documentary film maker to become a woodworker. Inseon has been hospitalised due to an injury…
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Continue reading →: From Serra da Lousã to Serra do AçorThe fine weather has been around all week though is due to come to an end tomorrow, with a rather more typically winter week of cloud and rain for the next few days. I have made my way north for a hundred kilometres or so to the town of Lousã…
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Continue reading →: Lago Azul on the Zêzere RiverOn Monday morning I moved a couple of hours to the west, to Lago Azul on the Zêzere river, a place that for 8 months a year would be crammed with visitors. It’s only 150 metres above sea level and its climate is affected by its proximity to the west…
To live more widely
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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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