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Random thoughts and ramblings on no particular theme.
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Review: “The Station Agent”
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It’s a very delicate little film this. Ostensibly nothing much really happens. Fin, a dwarf working in a model train store in New York, inherits an abandoned station agent’s office in upstate Newfoundland from his boss and, with more reason now to leave than to stay, ups sticks and leaves. Newfoundland turns out to be
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Stuff you hear on the street
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There’s a woman coming out of the park with her four Jack Russell terriers. They are barking and jumping around, in the way that most Jack Russells seem to do. I am on my bike, waiting at the traffic lights when I hear the dogs, and turn immediately as I’d recognise those yelps anytime. The
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Where do you come from?
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I have a Scottish accent. Not really much of a surprise given that I was born in Scotland after all. But it is something that people comment on quite often. The fact that I have managed to maintain my accent, despite having spent the last fifteen years out of the country. As a child we
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Faces on the street
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The man walking ahead of me is muted. Muted in the sense that he fades into the background. One of those people on the streets you would fail to notice. Not even a face in the crowd. He is one of those invisible people. He’s dressed in shades of brown and tan. Colours that say
