When Switzerland came to Hampshire
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Last Friday there was a corner of deepest Hampshire that became an honorary part of Switzerland, at least for a couple of...
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Last Friday there was a corner of deepest Hampshire that became an honorary part of Switzerland, at least for a couple of...
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Tuesday 1 June has been a red letter day in my diary for a very long time, marked as my last day...
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I’m not a touch-typist; when I’m writing, I usually have to look at the keys rather than the screen. But after years...
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The thing about working in a bookshop, especially an English Bookshop in a non-English-speaking country, is that you get to know your...
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What a difference a verb makes! There was a story on BBC Online yesterday about a gay couple who had booked a...
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Three months and a week doesn’t sound like a momentous time-frame until you rephrase it to be 100 days. Ever since President...
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What exactly goes on at a writers’ conference? If you’ve never been to one, it can seem rather daunting: will everyone be...
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Two years ago I went to Geneva for my first writers’ conference for two days of workshops, brainstorming, networking and chatting. In...
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