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A twinkling in his eye
Posted on 2:14pm Wednesday 28th July 2010
"Would you like to sit on my knee?"
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Antics at Hay
Posted on 11:34am Monday 7th June 2010
I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the Golden Valley for the Hay Festival and I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it just as much as last year if not more.
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Pursuing Philip Pullman
Posted on 4:30pm Monday 29th March 2010
Fantasy writer Philip Pullman must have thought I was stalking him at the weekend but he was far too polite to mention it.
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A flutter of excitement
Posted on 11:17am Thursday 18th March 2010
With the Oxford Literary Festival starting at the weekend, I should be developing some highbrow reading habits.
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Night reading
Posted on 4:17pm Monday 8th February 2010
I have recently launched a new book group but it is limited to two members - me and my four-week-old daughter.
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Living on the edge with Portillo
Posted on 9:49am Friday 8th January 2010
Watched the Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love the other night to try to take my mind off the snow.
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Keep those pages turning in 2010
Posted on 9:58am Tuesday 5th January 2010
Thanks to Cynthia L. Tarvin, Litigation Project Manager in Portland, Oregon, for giving me a little smack on the back of my legs, a gentle reminder that the pages really must start turning again in 2010.
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Battered by Battenberg at the Ashmolean
Posted on 10:37am Thursday 29th October 2009
I got my first glimpse of the brand new 21st century Ashmolean Museum yesterday, but on my journey there were several reminders of the past.
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Plague Dogs and the Gospel Truth
Posted on 4:12pm Wednesday 21st October 2009
I failed to get to grips with the Gospel of Mark in time for my bible studies class the other night, which left me virtually speechless as my classmates made a series of astute remarks.
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The building blocks of modern fiction
Posted on 3:14pm Saturday 10th October 2009
The Times came up with a great wheeze the other day. Some bright spark got people at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to vote for their favourite novels and the paper then compiled The Novel List: The 60 greatest books of the past 60 years.
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