is an Australian mistranslation of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, more commonly translated as The Lovers on the Bridge. It is an excellent film and this did make me laugh. Pétanque, meaning ‘feet fixed’ or ‘foot…
performing autopsies on a perpetuum mobile
Having lived a prosaic yet beautiful (and not quite over) summer of travel, I have since come home, bought new (fancy) running trainers, cancelled my Estrid subscription (pile up), watched the Barbie film (excellent) and…
in search of lost time
It is the last day in Madrid and my local coffee shop is not open. Which is fine because I go somewhere else and they dust cinnamon on my latte and give me 20 cents…
the balcony stool
There is a distinct lack of a balcony stool as I sit with an iced coffee writing this. The idea was to find one at Rastro. For various reasons, I have not been searching in…
Orchestrated Manoeuvres in the Dark
It is night, and she is tired. A female figure, lost in thought and looking at a train timetable, occupies the centre of the bed. An open window renders the viewer an automatic voyeur. An…