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Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonApr 13, 20204:26 am13th April 2020
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Connected isolation

I half expect that I’ll spot Woody from the Bay City Rollers on the forecourt, his head looking even more like a failed game of Ker Plunk.

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonFeb 5, 202010:23 am5th February 2020
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Sketches of Little Britain

A few recent scribbles.

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonJan 16, 20203:19 pm5th February 2020
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America

I’ve been a Paul Simon fan for more than 40 years. My parents owned Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.  It was one of the I’d-inevitably-know-inside-out standards that my dad would play on the weekends, along with […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonJan 15, 20209:32 am
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I’ve found a buried chest

The term “cliffhanger” is considered to have originated with the serialised version of Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes, published serially in Tinsley’s Magazine in 1873. At the end of one instalment, Henry Knight, one of […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonJan 14, 20207:18 pm14th January 2020
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Storytelling

Everything turns. I’ve spent too long lately staring at a blank sheet of paper. I was never a great student. I was, as one of my lecturers put it, “the type of scholar who, when entranced […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonNov 29, 20198:42 am9th January 2020
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Line by line

I’ve been teaching myself to draw. It’s a long time since I’ve picked up a pencil for any meaningful length of time and I’m loving it. The results are patchy, but there’s a great deal […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonNov 29, 20198:08 am
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RIP Clive James

I first read Clive James, in barren suburban Australia, pre-teen, early seventies, when my dad would bring home piles of old copies of The Observer from the office. He’d bring them home to evoke homesickness, but […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonOct 8, 20198:14 am8th October 2019

“I, in my great and unmatched wisdom…”

Trump’s latest eternal quote, destined for thirty ‘how not to’ textbooks, and a brilliant Brian Bilston poem by lunchtime, lays bare his Achilles heel. Before the political dark ages, a pre-Christmas episode of Question Time […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonSep 12, 20198:22 am12th September 2019

One share is enough

Compliance, adherence and acquiescence are beefy words often used in relation to rules. Built into each of those words is a sense of resistance and belligerence – as if those rules, ideally, should be more […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonAug 13, 20198:59 am

Dissent’s volume knob

Back in antediluvian times (before the ‘social’ flood), small arguments and disputes felt different. It often started with ‘I’m not sure that’s a great idea’. The person had to feel fairly sure of him or […]

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