Tag: america
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Watch me awkwardly read my poem, which didn’t win the National Poetry Competition 2021
Uvita River Dirt I wrote this in March 2020 🙂 I’ve also, embarrassingly, recorded myself reading my failed National Poetry Competition entry out loud, in case you’d rather watch me stumble over my words than read it yourself. Disclaimer: I’m wearing an inappropriately see-through leopardskin leotard because this is my lockdown uniform. It’s not something […]
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Celebrating 100 Whalebeings (followers) with 10 photos of nature being too beautiful for its own good
It’s been six weeks since I created this blog Whalebeings.com, and as of the moment I’m writing this, an incredible 89 of you have already clicked the ‘follow this blog’ button to receive a notification when I post something new. To be honest I’m amazed and completely chuffed that you’re not only clicking on my […]
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Supermarkets: the beating heart of America
I recently got back from a brilliant week’s holiday in Massachusetts. My friend had her wedding just outside a little town called Groton by a big, quiet lake surrounded by forest. It was beautiful, all of it. The wedding, the lake, the white wood-clad New England houses with their dolls-house dormer windows and immaculately striped […]
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Vegas is hyperreality: I think I passed Elton John in a casino but it might not have been him and it doesn’t matter anyway
That’s the thing about Vegas. It’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not.Â
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‘Hihowareyou’ – the American way
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking the girl behind the counter in Taco Bell actually gives a shit about how you are.Â
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