Month: June 2011
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Travels in Blood and Honey
A few weeks ago I attended the launch of Elizabeth Gowing’s delightful book, Travels in Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo. When Elizabeth first accompanied her partner Rob to Kosovo (where he had landed a job as adviser to the prime minister), her journey amounted to “an extended…
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Some weekends are enchanted: Norfolk
This is my mum Trish and me, with wind and spray in our hair at shingly Salthouse on the Norfolk coast. Sliding over the pebble banks to dip our toes in the waves, nudged forward by the North Sea wind, I felt like a two-pence piece in an arcade coin…
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