Tag Archives: Victory Gin
Where everybody knows your name
The lure of the perfect bar, like that of the perfect writing cafe, keeps me searching through the city streets. A place for rowdy celebrations with friends, knocking back drinks while sharing gossip and laughter, or for sitting not saying … Continue reading
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Jishin-yoi: the feeling of earthquake drunkenness
It usually starts with a jolt. If walking or standing, I notice the ground beneath my feet start to move, or if sitting I feel it along my spine. I brace myself for what is coming, look up at the … Continue reading
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Spring
Hanami season has arrived, stirring feelings of joy at the onset of spring and the start of a new financial and academic year, tempered with melancholy at the knowledge that, as with the sakura, all beauty is mortal. A finality … Continue reading
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Rough day
Yesterday was tough. The first full day back to work since the earthquake was always going to be something of a shock to the system and naturally there was only one main theme of conversation for the adult students. Where … Continue reading
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A week later
An evening spent writing, with the Stones on the stereo and a glass of whisky close at hand. That was my plan for last Friday evening, mulled over as I headed into Tokyo for a little light shopping on a … Continue reading
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Bye Bill
Bill Hicks. Gone, much-missed and never forgotten. I can’t even figure out which is my favourite line of his, they are all on the internet, so as it is Sunday you should settle down and watch the whole lot. Perhaps … Continue reading
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The state of us
It is becoming increasingly clear that the things we need to have happen in order for a fairer, more just society to emerge, from economic reforms to climate change measures, as well as improvements in education, health and social care … Continue reading
No half measures
ten minutes hate is not often given to dishing out advice for living, preferring to let people get on with messing things up in their own unique way without unasked-for interference. Predictably, perhaps, a birthday sees a departure from that … Continue reading
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Building a dream
Diane Abbott called it right. According to Paul Waugh on Twitter: As well they might. But do not be mistaken, although Liberal Democrats with narrow majorities over Labour MPs will be rueing the day they lined up for such a … Continue reading
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How much??!
They spent over three hundred grand on the CPS website. Julia spent the square root of feck all on ten minutes hate. Which one do we think looks better? Think I might change tack and start tendering for government IT … Continue reading
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