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The road, I am learning, is a school all of its own. It brings adventures, it injects a new psychology. I came on this tour partly to see England and praise the lord I’m getting a truckload of Albion. I’ve seen motorways and grassy hedges, picture post card villages, cottages under sleepy thatch, been growled at by provincial landlords and even attended bonkers church services.
A Telegraph journalist leans over and asks me if I remember my first time. I nod tersely. I remember the pink rose satin of the duvet, the curlicued wall-paper. I was thirteen. It was my best friend’s mother.
All Photos: Adam Sutcliffe at Amelia Magazine. Words by Patrick Hussey.
Continued from Blog 1: 'The Green Pilgrimage'.
A Scandalous tea party//30’s glamour aboard the SS Atlantica// Babs’ Fab//Menu Fix chez David Carter.
This is something about September that that fills me with glee. Although it signals that summer is well and truly over (and frankly when did the lazy child start?) it has a crisp, freshness full of new beginnings. Did Aloysius Lilius get the calendar wrong? I think so. For me September really signals the start of a new year and it is with great satisfaction that I bring to you more new events than you can shake a Time Out at.
I am going to take a journey. It will be, I suppose, a kind of green pilgrimage where the mind is opened and the toes bleed. This journey by the way has a name.
The Climate Rush Road Show
PART II: PAKISTAN & THE TALIBAN
The appearance of the Taliban in Kandahar in 1994 was the culmination of a decade and a half of armed conflict and social revolution. Although the birth of the Taliban was not part of a Pakistani machination, their development and meteoric rise was certainly the result of Pakistani support.
UNDERSTANDING THE PEOPLE, UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT
Bourgeois & Maurice - Pleasance Over the Road *****
Bourgeois & Maurice have long been my favorites, with lyrics like 'you don't like the taste of pooh, its just something you must do' what isn't there to love?
This year sees the dynamic duo hit the big time with 'Social Work'. After a sell out London run at Soho Theatre and critical acclaim, Edinburgh was a change to see if they 'worked' outside the M25.
