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Postcard from Lille Valete

18th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 3793 Comments

They say that as soon as you’ve finished writing your story then you’ve reached the point when you have to write it. They are correct. Words, like muscles, need flexed and re-used over and over [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 59

11th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 2742 Comments

I’m at my Utopia, a community in the jungle that I have supported, a place of peace and harmony between peoples. It has been trashed. The Utopians have fought amongst themselves, wrecked the place and [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 58

4th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 3814 Comments

I’m sitting at the edge of a thinning of the rainforest. My two tail-end Charlies are squatted beside me having just returned from an evening recce. Our other companions are making camp for the night, [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 57

28th March 2020 Always Worth Saying 3856 Comments

A funny thing happened on the way to Lille university. Funny for the rest of us but not so funny for my wife. She got stuck in the Metro’s automatic doors. They closed on her [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 56

21st March 2020 Always Worth Saying 4819 Comments

Before I start, Gisele is a flowery writer and is prone to exaggeration. Aren’t we all? She is also prone to acting on those exaggerations, therefore we must take what she says seriously. Plus, across [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 55

14th March 2020 Always Worth Saying 3963 Comments

At the end of a veranda, which separated the novice nun’s dormitory from the school’s basketball court, was a ‘shower’. A pyramid of plastic buckets sat below a tap which part filled them as it [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 54

7th March 2020 Always Worth Saying 3092 Comments

Lille, Nord Pas de Calais. 26 November 2018 11:04 am In Lille, the six of us wander the Boulevards, very impressive they are too. Making for the Lille Eye, a giant Ferris wheel installed for [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 53

29th February 2020 Always Worth Saying 3279 Comments

The road took the route of least resistance. It followed the coast to the nearest sizeable town and then swung inland, following rivers and valleys into the interior. The dropping tide lapped the edge of [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 52

22nd February 2020 Always Worth Saying 3279 Comments

If you still need proof of the existence of God through nature then take the bus, jeepney and pedicar as far as you can. When the way gets too steep for the pedicar cyclist, alight [more…]

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