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Same Same but Different
So much has changed since I wrote my last entry here. All our lives have been hijacked by Covid-19! For some it has been disastrous ! Loss of work, cancelled educational courses, forced movement or the opposite, restricted movement. And for others the tragic loss of a family member or someone near and dear.
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LGBT+ Film Festival
This weekend the third annual LGBT+ Film Festival took place here in Perpignan. I managed to get along to see two films from the program. The first was Xavaier Dolan's latest film, Matthais et Maxime. Dolan is a young director that tends to polarise audiences between loving and hating his films. I understand why people might not like his films as ( Read more... ) -
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Tomorrow I will catch the train to Gerona, Spain, where I will rendezvous with Titi who will be driving up from Barcelona after flying in from Kuala Lumpur. It was his birthday last week, and as has so often been the case, we were half a planet away from each other. So I decided to bake him a birthday cake.
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How About Some Good News?!
I wish I could stop reading all the news of the world!
Currently it is the fires raging in the Amazon, or it was. Now it has become even bigger with a NASA satellite capturing all the fires raging in Africa. Madagascar just looks like one mighty bonfire! Hong Kong demonstrators are desperately fighting to retain some vestige of democracy and ( Read more... ) -
Courgettes
I went out into the garden this morning and found that my courgette flowers had opened.
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