Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Diary briefs

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Helen Garner’s  Yellow Notebook  -  Text Publishing ,  The Guardian Diaries of women PKK terrorists - Anadolu Agency Diary of WW2 army n...
Monday, January 6, 2020

The eve of some fever

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‘Meanwhile, a stillness the most uncommon reigned over the whole house. Nobody stirred; not a voice was heard; not a step, not a motion. I c...
Friday, January 3, 2020

A Russian princess in Nazi Berlin

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Seventy years ago today, a young dispossessed Russian princess, Marie Vassiltchikov, arrived in Berlin looking for work, and a new start to ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Plenty of ladies at the ball

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150 years ago today, Alfred Doten, a journalist in Nevada, was celebrating Christmas with Charley Ockel’s eggnog, a supper of fried egg and ...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

This absurd diary

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‘I am always depressed and left with [a] sense of worthlessness at the beautifully applied energy of these people [his German friends], the ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Colour possesses me

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It’s the anniversary of Paul Klee’s birth today. What a painter, and not a bad diarist either! ‘The main thing now is not to paint precociou...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Politics is filthy mud

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‘In politics morality doesn’t exist. As far as I’m concerned politics is something that’s utterly dirty, it’s filthy mud. But at a certain m...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Scott’s wild goose chase

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Half a  century ago today, Peter Scott, a naturalist and well-known BBC presenter in his day, was in Romania, starting out on the latest of ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Beaver skins and beef fat

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’The present they brought was a package of beaver skins and about 100 lbs. of beef fat. I gave them in return one sack of corn and sixteen f...