There is certainly mounting rage about this football super league business, I can’t imagine they’ll go through with it. It was a busy working day – started before nine and I had my head down till past 10. A strange and terrible leak started up in the ceiling of the bathroom and has splattered everywhere, […]
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Return to the city
Today was our return. In the morning, after breakfast, we took another short walk, in a different direction, but this was mostly over roads katcha and pakka. Along the way we chatted about the potential downfall of global capitalism as sparked by the top football clubs in Europe deciding to form a mini-league of their […]
Fury at the races
The Times, 19 April 2021 Daily Mail, 19 April 2021
Fury at the clubs
The Sun, 19 April 2021 Express, 19 April 2021 Express, 19 April 2021 (added fury)
Paths through the back to the other side
Today’s stroll was also through the back, though it was a much more epic one. Instead of turning right towards the sea, we turned left and really just followed the paths that seemed most promising. This direction is not yet in the eyes of developers, so it was all farms and marshland, with some heathy […]
What I noticed
1. Pandering to the furious right in Pakistan 2. Coronavirus raging in India, Turkey, Pakistan 3. US troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan 4. Dodgy dealings in Whitehall 5. Trial for the murder of George Floyd 6. Blood clots, vaccines and the pill 7. Volcano in St Vincent 8. Buildup on the Ukrainian border […]
Paths through the back
After a Turkish breakfast we took the barge across the river and went out through the back of the other hotel. Here we came straight into fields and farms, though still with signs of construction which makes me think that Agva will not be as pleasant a couple of years from now and it is […]
Soothing to the eyes
This morning the GF and I went to Agva for a delayed Easter break. This seemed one of the few plausible places to visit during a pandemic: in Istanbul though outside the city proper, no need to take public transport, with small bed and breakfasts instead of the gigantic hotels in many of the areas […]
Cosmic significance
I was on my own for dinner today, as there were only enough leftovers for the GF. I ordered in a yaprak ciger, and I must say, it cheered me up quite thoroughly. Such a pleasant change. Other than that it’s been another long working day. The GF is a bit under the weather, and […]
Exposure
The comic formerly on this website has appeared, in bowdlerised form and under another title, in the magazine. I daresay the original version will appear in my postmortem collected works, a slim volume but one offering great delight. I was rather on edge about this comic. I objected to having to tone it down, as […]