Category: Food and Drink
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Zürich in winter: 2025
Monday The first night in Zürich. The flight wasn’t bad; was thinking about small things going wrong while traveling, after reading someone who claims that such things are ruinous but one forgets them. I don’t really agree: for some people, at some times, yes, but… And, finally in my hotel room, I break a glass…
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Zürich 2.24
NCL-AMS-ZUR A brief trip to Zürich, just five days, to teach a seminar at the Institut. I really don’t travel much these days, do I?… dusting a suitcase, running through the list I made years ago when I was studying so I wouldn’t forget important things… First of all, airport security in Newcastle has been…
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A bit vague, not lost
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Anniversary of this blog… sixteen years. A few days ago, really, on Saturday, but this is close enough. No, the blog doesn't feel dead to me, I'm still here for it, and it for me. I retired from the university in February; moved the books of my office to storage; and now keep talking about…
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Summer’s day
I am a bit tired today – a mistake in minor medications, a mildly bad night… and, as so often, I only realized at about five or six a.m. what the obvious mistake must have been, and why my guts were churning as a result. Not terrible. A bit exasperating. And two different friends, eager…
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Links
The six-hour essay exam is about to end: I am in the small, coolly organised office at the top of the building, looking down across the garden to the lake. I have eaten my lunch at the table to my left, gone through my bottle of tea and had a bit of coffee, dozed at…
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Fifth Continent, part deux
[A week in Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of July 2017… continued from part 1. Yes, I did take a long time to finish writing this!….] ••• On Tuesday morning we are good and organised tourists: or really Amanda is, and I follow her, still coughing a bit. We are going to see…
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Fifth Continent (part 1)
And so, with various fussing and excitement and minor anxiety, and bringing a lot of medications related to digestive and allergic side effects, I boarded an airplane… and journeyed to the Fifth Continent. ••• Not the world's fifth continent, but my fifth continent: I have lived and worked on North America, Asia, Oceania (if we define…
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Examinee
The first of these exams was the longest – Dr Weskamp, Dr Lüscher and a third woman I don't know go over one of my case reports, with dreams. The case is their selection, not mine – they are obviously curious about my patient who has a vast range of cinematic dreams; discussion is pleasant…
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Und Zürich wieder
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The school year wound up remarkably firmly, last Friday… which was welcome. Yes, well, a few more things came up – a plagiarism case (that turned out not to be one, which made life easy), a handful of students rejected from the year abroad (since they're trying for conservatories there are more rejections than most…
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Sunlight
[From about a month ago, in late May – a sketch with no particular punch line.] A lovely day… very warm by local standards, but relatively normal by my own, and those of Californian (and Australian and Italian and Spanish) friends…. Good things happened. Not the Dionysian spectacles of a few weeks ago, but a…
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