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Читаю Скажи Изюм. Ну, как читаю. Слушаю во время прогулок с Арчи по набережной. И как слушаю-то. С подвохом. Потому что при загрузке на айТюнс файл, разбитый на сотню с лишмим секций, каждая из которых по русски озаглавлена, превратился в файл, каждая секция которого озаглавлена по тарабарски. Упорядочению вся еьта кутерьма не подлежит, главы ( Read more... ) -
You become writer by writing.
It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist -
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/10/mind-your-language-american-english
"My dad always used to talk of a legendary Lincolnshire road sign -
"To Mavis Enderby and Old Bolingbroke"
to which some wag had added the line
"a son".
I laughed anyway. " -
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overheard - size 14 is consistently being nicked
walked to southampton from weston sailing club on Suturday, and cycled on Sunday. Smiley people all around, easily saying hello to strangers
the sailing wives seem to have accepted my non-integrating, or rather my integrating when I want to. Age gap? Size gap? Gap? -
encore un fois
My flight is on Tuesday. I'll have to get up super early. Increasingly paranoid that I'd forget to pack something - everything - essential. (It's India, it's OK, they sell things there ( Read more... ) -
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We found an orange rubber ball - a little bigger than a tennis ball, a lot smaller than a football. I throw it, OK, this bit is clear, Archie is flying faster than he thought he could to catch it. He succeeds. He holds it tight in his mouth. End scene. Over the summer I tried all available to me verbs to get him to give the ball to me so I could ( Read more... ) -
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650) -
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for the first time in months i felt like i had enough strength and energy today
i got up with chris just before seven, although i didn't have to, because having changed my mind backwards and forwards countless times last night i decided not to go sailing with him today
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1 British Pound Sterling equals
60.96 Russian Ruble
