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Ovine Metathesis
I play in a Salvation Army band, and I have on and off for sixty years. At band rehearsal this week we warmed up with Lois Bourgeois’s 16th century hymn…
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A passport service ‘without let or hindrance’?
A passport service ‘without let or hindrance’? – Expat – My Telegraph Here’s some more information relating to my previous post about Brits abroad and the difficulties they experience in…
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My Life in Politics and its Lessons for Fundraisers
Last Friday I delivered pamphlets on behalf of a candidate for the city council here in Toronto. I did the same for our local MP at the last federal election,…
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“British citizens top list for visa-free travel” (unless they live in Canada)
British citizens top list for visa-free travel – Daily Telegraph I have to admit that I have never had a problem travelling in Europe using my British passport. Behind the …
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My New Life Gets Off to a Running Start
I blame the sneakers. I ought to have known it was a mistake to buy white ones. (What an awful word ‘sneakers’ is! In my youth we had plimsolls, spikes…
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Dining Out in Stockholm
The word ‘blog’ certainly looks like it belongs in an IKEA catalogue — somewhere close to skubb, grov and krog — but it isn’t a Swedish word. Or perhaps I…