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Kate Clarke
Apr 112 min read
Dear John
Prine Primed. Incited by the Songwriting of John Prine. Cowboy Jamboree Press. Edited by Adam Van Winkle. A new release from Cowboy...
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Kate Clarke
Oct 12, 20231 min read
For The Pigs
“Are they yours? Aren’t they magnificent?” “I’ll like them better when they’re on my plate." I winced and we walked away, commiserating....
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Kate Clarke
Apr 6, 20231 min read
Three Years Gone
Three years gone. For so long I was affronted and outraged that the world kept rolling on - you know how that is. Now I'm beyond...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 11, 20232 min read
Adventures in the Skin Trade
We had some racy photographs taken today. I realise the word racy hasn't been used since 1962 by an excitable TV critic talking about...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Happy Christmas
I have never known what to do at Christmas, in the same way that I have never known what to do at the weekends. Most of the fripperies of...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Heading South
Our last day or two in the neighbourhood before we pack up these pots & pans, whippets & trinkets and head south. I find myself getting...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 12, 20222 min read
Love and Commerce
Well, we are trying to move to Dorset but Santander Bank seems to be working on a hunch that Ronny is a money launderer rather than a...
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Kate Clarke
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Golden Hour
For all our anxiety about running out of time we spend a lot of it composing grand things in our mind that we won’t say out loud. There’s...
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Kate Clarke
Sep 22, 20221 min read
It's Four in the Moning
We were awake at 4am last night laughing about this odd addiction to sadness we have both nurtured so carefully since early childhood. I...
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Kate Clarke
Sep 17, 20222 min read
Some Came Running
We've been swapping movies. This is apt, since Kate & Ronny came in on James Grissom’s Follies of God, which is, among other things, a...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 19, 20221 min read
British Heatwave
In Maidenhead, at Heather’s flat, one rare, scorching summer - swimsuits, a paddling pool in the garden under a drooping washing line....
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Kate Clarke
Aug 14, 20221 min read
I Like This Girl
I wish more people could do this. I think most of us know we are being cheated. The game of 'who can hold the ugliest note for the...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 27, 20221 min read
Despite Everything
When I’m lying on the floor, rubbing her belly, Vera never wonders: "What exactly is she after?" When I put chicken in the slow cooker...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Listening to John Delahunty Again
I’m listening to John again. I never knew him but I watch his step. The heart was miscarrying and defeated, but the face says he laughed...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 14, 20222 min read
Nero's Bath, Elvis, Lisa Marie
I visited the Vatican museum years ago. The orgy of wealth was shameful and I think everyone leaves the place feeling a little grubby,...
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Kate Clarke
May 27, 20221 min read
The Tennessee Two
For two people with no religion we seem to count a lot of things as holy. Dogs, kissing, sex. Clyde McPhatter and Arthur Alexander....
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Kate Clarke
May 15, 20222 min read
Gerry from Kilkee
i understand now why everyone comes home from Ireland with stories. While I was with him and Maureen in Enniskillen, Joe Corrigan...
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Kate Clarke
May 5, 20222 min read
They're All Wild Seeds Now
I'm taking to boat from Fishguard to Rosslare tomorrow. Crossing the same sea Terry crossed with his mum and dad when he was three or...
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Kate Clarke
Apr 29, 20221 min read
Sadness, Sinbad, Swiss Roll
The trick is, I suppose, not to attribute your sadness to the wrong thing. I’m not sad because of you or us, or because of waiting, or...
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