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'Out of Town'
From: Simon Winters Hi Simon. Don't know if you are in UK and can make it, but there is a Kaleidoscope event on this saturday at Stourbridge. We are filming interviews for a major BFI documentary...
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The music...
The music that suffuses Corfu and especially beloved Ano Korakiana with its sounds of practise in the quiet of the day. Takis Savvani, Τάκης Σαββανής, writes on the village website:Το παλιό αρμόνιο...
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Linking 'Out of Town' films and tapes
Jack with Bess, filmed by Stan I've collected all Out of Town commentary tapes from the lock-up and about 50 cans of 16mm Out of Town film. I'm going to see if I can match one tape to one film. P &...
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Plot 14 - a sheep or a goat?
Another row of spuds, beans, a marrow and spinach on Plot 14 My allotment is surrounded by unworked plots. Imran took over plot 13, west of mine, in May 2012. After a few day's enthusiastic work he...
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Afterwards
Writing to the Council A few days ago we arrived at mum's old home, late but in the long light of the Highland summer. Since then, but for walks with Oscar, it's been work, including composing a letter...
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Tidying and clearing the house in the Highlands
Tidying Brin Croft I would, while she was alive, think of how it would be, sleeping and eating in her empty home, going through her things, sorting, allocating, disposing. I knew the day would one day...
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Work
I cycled into town, Oscar running with me beside the canal, to get leaflets copied, buy some odds and ends including batteries for my cycle lights, marker pens, and a reliable steak bake from Greggs,...
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Place
We're all in the kitchen here, Amy. Liz, Oliver, Lin and I, with Flea watching us making lists... Going back to an afternoon in 2009 on the other side of the world: Meanwhile in the small town of...
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Handsworth Helping Hands
Working in Stamford Road Residents and volunteers with Handsworth Helping Hands - our local voluntary handyperson group with transit van and tools and enthusiasm - filled three skips with rubbish from...
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My hearing
I noticed his name badge - Phil Ypres-Smith. He was the expert at City Hospital Hearing Treatment Centre where I had an appointment on Friday morning, much sooner than I'd expected after my slightly...
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A thread on Facebook - 'Only Corfu Society' - on superstition, religion and...
ReferenceRECENT POSTSVanessa KatsarouThere is a bird that screeches at night (definitely a bird not an owl as I have made out it's outline in a tree). My Greek husband has always got very unnerved when...
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One option
Through our kitchen window this morning One option is to reanimate Jack as Tony has - to me astonishingly - in the film extract shown below...I posted this note in Facebook this morning having written...
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Estate work
Lin holds the rope I've slung round the upper branches of the tree that overhangs Rock Cottage; ties it for safety round a tree trunk. Up a ladder leaning on the fork of the tree, I start sawing...
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How depressing and incredibly awful...or is it?
TheIrish Times, Tue, Aug 13, 2013 by a friend in Corfu - Richard Pine: A report in these columns in July that an Italian senator had referred to the black Italian minister for integration as an...
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'Another soul'
Robin, my friend, and neighbouring plot-holder, on the Victoria Jubilee Allotments has just circulated an email to me, and others who might be interested, having persuaded me, who really wanted to stay...
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London for the day
London was all grey overcast and drizzle. Big planes emerged, flaps down, turbines whistling, slowly processing at five minute intervals over central London down to Heathrow.On Albert Bridge I caught...
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Connecting rubbish in the streets to social cohesion
One of our ward members, Councillor Waseem Zaffar MBE, JP, chairman of Birmingham City Council's Social Cohesion and Community Safety Scrutiny Committee, wrote a piece on 25th August in the Birmingham...
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Topsoil
We are still inventing ways to introduce near completed episodes from the archive, where I've managed to gat tape and film matched. Tony Herbert has been working on Francis Niemczyk's work on the...
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Corfu
I am almost surprised at the way the flaps go up and down on landing revealing the innards of the wing that we've relied upon.Landing at Kapodistria - Easyjet from London Luton By the middle of the...
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