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it’s Christmas! show you care
Ach, I wanted this picture to go bigger. Well, clearly here in Baroque Mansions we have a vested interest in Salt, and we want it to succeed. Friday is the last posting day for Christmas: still time...
View Article2008: exit, stage left
As if by stealth it’s gone. Two days late we find ourselves here in the Baroque Annexe (south) assessing 2008 and looking bravely – very bravely – ahead at 2009. It’s the annual stocktaking any...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen dusts under the social and political valence
Funnily enough, this post was mostly originally written the day before John Updike died. It was what I was typing when my famous Laptop Keyboard Disaster happened last week. It’s an unfortunate...
View Articleshopping: a word for the girls
To continue our little season of English usage we have a surprising subject, and one that may even change the way you think about Selfridges Beauty Hall. It has everything in it, including my pet...
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buy Salt
Wondering what to read this summer? There’s a 20% discount at the Salt shop… and the selection above, while I can vouch for most of it personally, is but a drop in the ocean. I haven’t even given you...
View ArticleBaroque: our finger on the pulse so yours doesn’t have to be.
Argh! Major typo fixed in title! What am I like. Well, I simply can’t believe that no one even liked my Niles Crane/ Linus Van Pelt “could this be more than just coincidence” special. I thought that...
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youth literacy and unemployment: going together hand in book
I’ve even seen these young people myself, reading in the streets. Disguised as builders. It’s a marvellous thing. But I had no idea what it was all about till I stumbled across the explanation on a...
View Articlethe beautiful eyes of the Christmas spam
Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without a nice Christmas spam. So here it is: subject heading: “I felt a chill pass over me as I looked at t” snippet: “Elf supplied, and I strongly suspect that it...
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hung apartment
While we wait to see our collective fate decided I’ve spent the past few days rearranging my deckchairs, I mean books. As you can see, I’ve installed (okay – my esteemed other has installed) my...
View ArticleLife in the bookshop!
This has gone up on the Guardian now, but in case you missed it – it more or less depicts what my relationship with books has always been like. This is a ‘meaning of life’ Wednesday Special. We look...
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