Author: Alex
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Fringe appeal
Admin note: the answers to last week’s quiz are now online. In a little under two weeks’ time, the world’s biggest performing arts festival comes back to Edinburgh. For 25 days in August, the…
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Welcome to the London Borough of…, the quiz
I’m still on reduced writing power this week, so here’s a quiz for you. It’s three weeks since the last instalment of my three-weekly series in which I described my journey taking pictures of…
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Dear giant creatures
This month I have a little less time for writing for the blog, partly because I’m going to an in-person thing that I need to write something for. So, like last week’s post, this…
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Time travel
This one’s a bit different—it’s something I started writing as an exercise when I was at a writing group in Leith on Tuesday night, and finished for the blog. The task, in brief, was…
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Welcome to the London Borough of…, part X
Last time: I ticked off six more boroughs, stroked a cat, visited a bathroom, and left my quest there for the day. Twenty-seven weeks ago, I started telling you about my quest to find…
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Lapwinging it
Long-time readers of this blog might remember a once-common running joke, in which every time I mentioned a bird I misnamed it. This all stemmed from a photo gallery I put on Facebook back…
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But I think I can see in your face
When I’ve written about board games before, a frequently recurring theme is that a game is pitched as being “chess, but simpler”. Octogo, you may recall, billed itself this way, as did Multiplay. As,…
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Welcome to the London Borough of…, part IX
Last time: I went to the Museum of the Home, and only got two more borough signs. Slacking, really. If this project, for want of a better word, is characterised by one thing, it’s…
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Five things I learnt from vintage Argos catalogues
I went to the National Library again on Friday, after having seen a blog post by one of their librarians about their growing collection of home shopping catalogues. Given that I am now the…
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No-one ever could reach me
When is a board game review not a board game review? Well, when it’s a long digression on the subject of logic puzzles, for one. But also, I’d argue, when the game irritates the…