December 2011

A Sad Solution

Friday, 30 December 2011

One of the things I like about blogging is it’s a great place to complain about the mundane. Life’s little irritants I call them. Back in October, it was our new radio alarm clock. Despite its relatively high price tag, it wasn’t much good at its job. That’s it on the left. It looks quite [...]

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Natural Order

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Even though it is still technically a holiday in our house, my daughter’s nose is already back to the grindstone as she works on several projects for her TEFL studies and teaching me things I didn’t know I knew. She was putting together a grammar test to compare the awareness of grammatical rules in native [...]

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X is for Xhosa

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Can I complete the whole of Round 9 of ABC Wednesday based on our four week stay in South Africa in February? Click on the photos to enlarge. There was a black stand-up comedian in Cape Town who told a joke that went something like this: ‘A lot of my white friends ask me if [...]

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Normal Service Resumed

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

It is good to be back after my sojourn in Cleckhuddersfax. Apologies to anyone confused by the parochial surrealism of my Maurice Wilson posts and thanks to those who joined in via the comments. The exciting news while I’ve been away is that Shooting Parrots was awarded the gold medal in the Laughing Horse Blog [...]

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It’s all a dream and illusion now

Monday, 26 December 2011

If you find my stories of my new life in a strange land confusing, you might want to read the tale of Maurice Wilson from the beginning. I don’t know if it was the Brussels sprouts or the Christmas pudding that did for me, but after the exertions of the football match, the meal and [...]

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When Glad Tidings Were Brung

Sunday, 25 December 2011

If you find my stories of my new life in a strange land confusing, you might want to read the tale of Maurice Wilson from the beginning. Detective Snow called this morning like the Archangel Gabriel bringing tidings of great joy. The Yorkists had declared a Christmas truce in the War of Maurice Wilson’s Underwear. [...]

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

Saturday, 24 December 2011

If you find my stories of my new life in a strange land confusing, you might want to read the tale of Maurice Wilson from the beginning. Christmas Eve in Cleckhuddersfax and I believe we are finally beginning to settle into our new surroundings. We had a visit from the Carol Listeners last night. This [...]

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Deck the Halls

Friday, 23 December 2011

If you find my stories of my new life in a strange land confusing, you might want to read the tale of Maurice Wilson from the beginning. With all the excitement of joining the police protection programme, one thing we haven’t had time to do is decorate the flat to make it feel more like [...]

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Truth is like the sun*

Thursday, 22 December 2011

In case you didn’t know it (and I’m sure that you do) it’s the winter solstice today which means we’re as far away from the sun as it is possible to get. Or at least it feels that way in Cleckhuddersfax. We’ve been here for the best part of a week now and I don’t [...]

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