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Continue reading →: Crossing
Turkey / Georgia 2024 All of last year I didn’t see a film I scored as a ten, and yet only a few days into 2026 and I’ve found one. I haven’t see a film by Director Levan Akim before, but after this I will seek out all of his…
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Continue reading →: Back to the MedDuring my week at Ouled Chmicha, Laurent’s permaculture guest farm, there were only the two other visitors I mentioned in my last post, the young Dutch couple at the beginning of their six month sabbatical from work, and the young woman having a weekend break from the pace of city…
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Continue reading →: Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh
Non-fiction – Travel – Published August 2025 It wouldn’t be difficult to criticise Rajesh’s work; most of her journeys and excursions in the places she explores are financially far beyond the majority of her readers, and I don’t think such a piece of travel writing is the place to air…
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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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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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