Tag: UK
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A Momentous Year
A coke and a smile and it’s already 6th of January, most New Year’s resolutions are well on their way to being broken and a whole new seedbed of freshly sprouting tragedies are preparing to break the soil of 2017. So, will this year be better than last? No. At least, not in the eyes…
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From the Night
In the pre-dawn of an English winter, it is among the world’s loneliest places. Here, few birds will fly and none sing at this hour. Awestern gale, damp and cold, rattles the scrub of a featureless landscape, finding its way into the bones of the unwary traveler. Few will travel here. Of a…
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Correction of a House
For those who missed it, Shepton Mallet prison closed last week. As a child of Somerset, I have distant memories of Shepton Mallet, and the prison (no, I wasn’t an inmate) is among those vague recollections, squatting in the midst of civilised town buildings like a somnolent slug. High perimeter walls – 75ft is…
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