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Dannie

Posted on December 22, 2014 by The Lone Reader Blog

On a Sunday afternoon this year, I received an email from a close friend with the simple title, ‘Dannie’. I understood at once what it meant. One of the greatest Welsh voices of the last seventy years had finally been … Continue reading →

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The most boring thing in the world

Posted on March 30, 2013 by The Lone Reader Blog

Someone I follow on Twitter recently posted a photograph of this: The evidence certainly seems to agree with Timberlake. You can’t go anywhere without something ‘entertaining’ your senses. Browse in any shop and there’s music being played, walk through a … Continue reading →

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Learning to read

Posted on March 5, 2013 by The Lone Reader Blog

If Steinbeck was alive today he’d be 111 years old. That’s about how old I feel after every time I read ‘Of Mice and Men’. Don’t get me wrong, I like it. Or I should say, I liked it. For … Continue reading →

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