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Column 2004
December 2004
I am deep into a new book for children - not a picture book this time, but a story for 8-12 year olds. My god-children love their stories, and as they get older, so must the things I invent to amuse them. Still, it amuses me, so it's a pretty good deal.
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November 2004
America is in a state of civil war. Outside forces threatening the USA are nowhere near as dangerous to the country as the battle being fought for the hearts and minds of the American people.
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October 2004
Back from France and wondering why the world is moving so fast.
For three weeks I have had no car and no visitors, and my evening recreation has been a 2kilometre walk to the local dump with my bin and bottles. The dog came too, and on the way back we collected blackberries and mushrooms.
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September 2004
I am in a castle. Turrets, moat, gates, ironmongery, outbuildings, falcons, water-rats, one large black dog. At night, the stars stud the sky with silver. By day, the sun is hot but not fierce, and the old orchard is hung with fruit.
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August 2004
This should be the month of holidays and sunshine and something like happiness. However, I read that we are growing more and more unhappy with our lot. Last year, in the UK alone, 33 million anti- depressants were prescribed. This is worrying, as we have a population of around 55 million.
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July 2004
I am late with the site this month - I have had what felt like the world's worst virus, complete with an ear infection that made me fall over and go deaf. I am better now, but this column will be brief.
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June 2004
With Lighthousekeeping finally launched, I find myself with a sore throat and exhaustion. One last event at Hay on Wye on Saturday, and then I will be free to sleep. I love seeing everyone at the events, but they are tiring times, not least because regional hotels are so terrible. Why do we have to have sprout coloured carpets, a porn channel and a Corby Trouser Press?
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May 2004
This is it! After all this time, LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING is in the print and on the shelves, and even if you don't live in the UK, you can order it on-line. It won't be published in the USA until 2005,
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April 2004
This is the first evening of the year that I have been able to sit outside and write this column.
The ducks are swimming on my river and my trees and shrubs are opening their leaves. It feels like a new beginning. I hope so.
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March 2004
So here I am in Singapore heading for Sydney.
The door of my room is open onto a corridor-terrace that is open to the sky, and that overlooks a fountain courtyard. It is the most beautiful hotel I have stayed in, anywhere in the world; it is, of course, Raffles.
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February 2004
I was writing up my Poem of the Month, and as so often happens, the poem, because it is talismanic, pushes out the mind, like a boat pushed out from the harbour, so that the safe Sunday night place, (where I am now), disappears, and before me is the sea.
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January 2004
Happy New Year to everyone.
I don't know what you are wishing for this year, but if world peace seems ambitious, we can all work towards it in our own life. I have decided to keep a little book of anger, to chart how often, and why, I get angry. I am hoping that there won't be too much in there by the end of the year - but as the year began with some thug breaking into my Landrover, it was a bad start.
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