2022 Grateful 24: The grass is greener
The grass is greener on the other side. While I was growing up, that particular gem of wisdom was usually accompanied by the admonition to
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Forty shades of green
I’m sick. Homesick. I’ve been travelling for what seems like a couple of lifetimes, ever since I first headed Stateside back in 1990. Since then,
A little piece of calm
Anyone remember the first series of Black Books with Dylan Moran? The first show in Series One? Where Bill Bailey swallows the Little Book of
Voting…from the outside
I read with some interest today that some 360 000 Hungarian passports have been issued to Hungarian speakers not resident in the country since the government,
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Earlier this week, I sent out an e-mail to my North American friends, those living within the USA and those living without. I included a
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I have spent the last ten days in a room with 16 people who travelled from Abu Dhabi, Austria, British Virgin Islands, Congo, Grenada, Hungary,
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