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“I had my second COVID jab. Now, this is, as I say, where like there’s still grey areas. …‘Oh, hang on a minute. If I do have the COVID jab, have I got antibodies to fight off COVID?’ So, well, we’re waiting to do the tests or whatever… I’m thinking ‘My T ...
It’s 7.45 a.m and it is an oddly grey and cool morning. The usual thunder of Saturday traffic past my house is petering out because today isUmugandaand we are all expected (by law) to be outside joining in with our local Umudugado (small named housing sector) area works; be it ...
Grey’s waterbuck, tetel and a lot more I don’t know.” Chasing the soldiers from his mind requires listing not just large animals but also the “strangest of all birds… the whale headed stork, called Abu Markub by the Arabs, which means slipper beak.” Just after passing the mouth ...
and we still don’t get angry. There’s no room for anyone, yet room for everyone. A woman in a royal blue robe, dazzling against the grimy grey of the hutong walls seems to pose saucily in response to mynee-how, but maybe I’m flattering myself. Still, us foreigners do get a lo...
it hurts. Vodka helps. So does chocolate. Cry a little. Cross that agent’s name off your spreadsheet (or at least change their name to an unflattering shade of medium grey, so there) and tell yourself they really aren’t as awesome as you always thought they were. Eat another bite of...
I am his only child and so it was time to meet my father’s requirement. Two weeks after moving back, we bought a boat and started fishing again. Fishing was one of the few things that we did while I was young and that we both enjoyed. It is strange but true that as we are fis...
Like Walter, I promise nothing but friendship and loyalty, boast nothing but crassness and machismo and whether you like me or not, I will be there, ringer in hand, to defend you...
She has been awarded residencies by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Greywood Arts and the Irish Writers Centre. In 2019 she took part in Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series and was a recipient of the Next Generation Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has been shortlisted ...
The mistress roughly hands her a stack of thin, grey clothes. At that point it was already 3 pm. After another couple of hours of class, we march to the canteen to eat cold, sloppy gruel. What we haven't finished ends up as dinner tomorrow. After our unappetizing dinner we all slink...