February 2012
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Britain in the Snow
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A few years back, it snowed in London. Not limp, half-arsed proto-slush that’s just ugly and annoying, but proper, knee-deep fairy fluff that turns everybody into chums. We headed to Regent’s Park, which was just swathed in the stuff, immaculate and bewitching. Now, there are two ways to react to the prospect of a square-mile of manipulable raw material. One is to build podgy little...
Florence.
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I’ve wanted to write this piece for a while; to be precise, since I first stumbled, gawping, into the Piazza del Duomo, Florence, about this time a year ago. The trip came on the back of a tough few weeks in London. I had to miss a day of it because of a sodding interview in the City, and I’d brought a little keepsake from home: a malicious, bulging ulcer searing angrily at the...
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January 2012
12 posts
E Scritto
Follow this blog. It’s for your own good really.
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New Blog!
Sorry to yammer on, but check out my new blog here. It’s full of wisdom like this:
‘cyclists have the most useless, flaccid tool imaginable for communicating anger: the bell. You can go blue in the face and frothy-mouthed and properly bonkers with the meandering sightseers in front of you, but your only recourse is a benign, terribly polite little tinkle. It’s the meek, metallic...
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New Blog!
It’s early days for my new writing blog, but please take a look if you can. A few followers makes all the difference. It’s called ‘E Scritto’, and can be found here.
Wishing you all a great day,
Will.
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December 2011
7 posts
Welcome to Beijing.
It’s hard to believe that Mandarin is a language at all. It is so absurdly foreign, so screechingly unnatural that I marvel that anybody can communicate with it. It is also tonal and bone china-delicate, and our attempts to enunciate a hotel address to an open-shirted, big-bellied cab driver must have looked piteous. ‘Chaoyang?’ we ask, referring to the district name. The cabbie looks as if...
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
20 posts
Nihao!
Please accept a weedling apology for the fact that my posts have been pretty sparse recently. I’ve not really been anywhere notable, and didn’t want to clutter up your dashboards with cutesy pictures of flowers and coffee cups that comprise 99% of Tumblr activity.
But tomorrow I’m going to China! I am impossibly excited and a bit nervous. I’ve never been there before and,...
