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Flavour and Taste

Spring 1993, Portugal I oversleep, miss breakfast, my friends and the bus to Braga. The next one goes in an hour. There’s an unimpressive-looking restaurant across the road and I’m starving.

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La Rioja

The Region You drive up the hill and notice the brown tourist road sign alerting you to a photo opportunity up ahead. You slow down, wondering what on earth one can

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Snow Angel

Here in Switzerland, it’s Altwiebersommer (Old Ladies’ Summer). Colours are brighter, sunlight is golden and warm afternoons chase away the mists of morning. Apples ripen on the bough and wasps

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“I mis-spoke.”

Should writers approach language as an untouchable set of rules, regarding idioms and phrases as sacrosanct? For me, the fabulous set of tools we are granted as English speakers is a gift. Our literature and conversation would be poorer without the creativity and inventiveness of those who stretch its elasticity.

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The Prequel

By JJ Marsh Black Dogs, Yellow Butterflies is available now! This novella is a free exclusive for mailing list subscribers, so if you haven't already done so, subscribe and grab the book.

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