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The Evenloder: Crossing borders

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Tuesday, 4 March 2014. Well, Clarens was a very attractive and appealing place, but as with many tourist destinations, the attraction and the appeal can wear thin by the end of a week. Most of the clothing, and I think many of the gift shop trinkets too, are 'made in the foothills of the Himalayas'. They are only rarely made in South Africa. And there is virtually no African craft ware on sale here either. Or the wealthy (white) residents? Plus of course the race div...

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The Evenloder: Brand Africa

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Sunday, 16 February 2014. It's so hot here in Ladybrand that it's difficult to focus on what is around you. I've come somewhere completely new and yet I've been oddly confused as to what is exactly different and why. The onward flight to Bloemfontein was a surprise in one big respect. The plane had propellers! I was a zombie for the next couple of days. The heat was excessive and still is, even by local standards. By 10am it's too hot to sit anywhere but by a...This ...

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The Evenloder: In a different minority

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Sunday, 16 February 2014. In a different minority. It's interesting to be in a tiny cultural minority for a change. Ladybrand is about 80% Sotho speaking, 8% Afrikaans and 5% English. That's by first language. In the town everyone appears to speak English as well. The Afrikaans speakers all appear to speak English too: the converse is definitely not true. But then again, rubbish may not be what it appears! According to the UN Lesotho is also the world's rape capital ...

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The Evenloder: 'One of the lowest priced theatres and cinemas in the region.'

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Friday, 3 January 2014. One of the lowest priced theatres and cinemas in the region.'. Every penny of the booking fee goes towards the charitable aims of the theatre, and we will endeavour to remain one of the lowest priced theatres and cinemas in the region.'. Or I can go to. One of the lowest priced theatres and cinemas in the region'. Here the sightlines are often obscured, many seats (as well as being not terribly comfortable) are directly behind the one in f...

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The Evenloder: Nearly there!

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Tuesday, 28 January 2014. There's more pressure closing a shop than keeping it open. What is in many ways a desultory experience has been transformed by many really kind and grateful emails from customers (I was only doing a job of work and trying to scrape a living! And two alcoholic bottles left for me on Saturday. Quite moving. I get some things right, it seems. Well done dad, you may have only been doing a job but others obviously felt otherwise! Before I moved t...

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The Evenloder: Blue remembered hills

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Wednesday, 13 November 2013. So wrote A E Housman:. Into my heart an air that kills. From yon far country blows:. What are those blue remembered hills,. What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content,. I see it shining plain,. The happy highways where I went. And cannot come again. Here they are, blue and distant, behind Ben and me as we stood on Leith Hill tower (the top is just over 1000 feet above sea level, so a mountain in height! Before I m...

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The Evenloder: Malealea

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Sunday, 9 March 2014. This is an amazing place. It feels like a little bit of heaven on earth. The peace is extraordinary, and the occasional screaming of birds or the curious sounds made by the frogs (? Does nothing to disturb it. An extraordinary variety of people from all over the world pass through a place like this and are fascinating to talk with. I read that the facial features of the San can still be seen in some of the people here as rather oriental in their...

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The Evenloder: The bookshop, internet culture, and change

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Thursday, 31 October 2013. The bookshop, internet culture, and change. Next year I want to see if other people are interested in enabling the digitally excluded to play a fuller part, and not to fall by the wayside when they become ill, elderly, or otherwise incapacitated. Meanwhile, for the record, here's what I've written for the Chronicle:. 8226; • • • •. I have plenty to look forward to. I'd like to spend some time next year working on ways of contacting and educ...

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The Evenloder: From the sublime to, well, modern catering

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Sunday, 15 December 2013. From the sublime to, well, modern catering. Going to the annual Christmas concert at Keble College is as much an experience as arriving and being there. Trudging the Oxford streets in the dark and damp is an extraordinary journey because despite the dark and dull of the present moment, Oxford being Oxford, you walk in expectation and anticipation of arriving somewhere quite extraordinary, often quite magical. It's impossible to describe what...

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The Evenloder: Sale day

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Jottings of someone of no importance. Saturday, 4 January 2014. The sale has begun! Five people in here by 9.30, by 9.35 I can't see to the front of the shop. A woman has gone off in a temper because she can't read the location maps on the backs of the OS maps to work out where Charlbury is. Two customers tried to help but she has thrown the maps down and left. Perhaps she will bring her reading glasses next time she comes to a bookshop. Made two mistakes with change so far! This is my sharing space.