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writer and eternal optimist

Chapter 3: Gluttons for Punishment

Posted on February 11, 2014 by subincontinentia

I wrote this novella ‘Adventures in Flower Arranging’ in 2001. I thought I’d transferred it from my floppy disk (remember them?) onto the hard drive that I took with me to India. Seems that only half of it made the … Continue reading →

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Chapter 2: No Survivors

Posted on February 7, 2014 by subincontinentia

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Chapter 1: Veils

Posted on February 2, 2014 by subincontinentia

A one man revolution

Posted on January 30, 2014 by subincontinentia

It was one of those days. You know the kind. When it’s all such an almightily boring effort. Another Groundhog Day especially tailored by London sleet and collective ennui. And then I saw him. Sitting on a pink plastic stool … Continue reading →

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The spam of loneliness: My dearest friend

Posted on January 24, 2014 by subincontinentia

This poem is made up of fragments cut from dozens of spam messages I received over the past month. I found myself sifting through them for some humanity I could connect with. In rearranging their words I felt like I … Continue reading →

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Protected: For Liz: the old ‘abandoned’ house

Posted on January 16, 2014 by subincontinentia

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Soul of the Buddha: Now considered lost

Posted on January 14, 2014 by subincontinentia

Two years ago, I was surfing the inter web in my apartment in Dharamsala, a hill town in northern India, while researching an article on Tibet. I happened upon a still from a silent movie that made me stop in … Continue reading →

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The shipping forecast: moderate or good

Posted on January 9, 2014 by subincontinentia

My mother was an avid radio listener, loyal to ‘The Archers’ and most of BBC Radio 4, and would turn on the radio when she was cooking or sleeping. As she got older, she cooked and slept less, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in epoche | Tagged BBC Radio, British Isles, coastal, Hacker radio, Long Wave, LW, Met Office, radio, Radio 4, RAF, Sailing By, sailor, Shipping Forecast, Shipping News, The Archers, transistor radio. FM, vintage radio, weather, weather forecast | 5 Comments

Rambo and me

Posted on January 6, 2014 by subincontinentia

Thailand, September 2012 His name was ‘Rambo’. Five tonnes of sentience with a nose of fuchsia freckles, ambling towards me with a look of moderate indifference—like he’d already eaten three just like me for breakfast. I considered taking my trembling … Continue reading →

Posted in Moving on...., Thailand dreaming | Tagged Baan Chang Thai, Dubari, elephant, elephant camp, elephant ride, island, Karnataka, Koh Chang, South India, Thailand | 4 Comments

2013 in review

Posted on December 31, 2013 by subincontinentia

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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