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An update: professional and personal
Time for an update. Professional and personal. I learnt in March that I am being kept on at the firm I’m working for after the end of the traineeship. That means that from September I will, at last, be able … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Alliance Francaise, blog, career, France, francophilia, French, languages, life, teaching, travel, update, walking, writing
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Egoless autofiction or the self-erasing memoir: Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’
In The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd inverts her eye, but it’s not her mind we see but Mind itself. It is a theory of the mind from a particular mind mode. Mind minus ident and the idem from the idiosyncratic. … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged autofiction, being, book-review, books, Cairngorms, eros, gender, hiking, Literature, memoir, Nan Shepherd, nature, perception, philosophy, pilgrimage, politics, Review, Scotland, Second World War, senses, sincerity, The Living Mountain, walking, writing
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The Wexford-Pembrokeshire Way or a Hiberno-Welsh Odyssey
These are trying times indeed. I’ve been watching connected criminal proceedings at the Glasgow Sheriff Court as part of my job as a trainee civil litigation solicitor. On the third day observing I had cycled back down to Carlton Place … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Dublin, Fishguard, Holyhead, Ireland, life, Normans, Our Lady's Island, Pembrokeshire, pilgrimage, St Davids, St Magnus, Wales, walking, Wexford, Zola
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