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Thursday, 21 August 2025

Chapter 225: Sand by Kook Ensemble

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  I have been turning over memories of Sand by Kook Ensemble , the creation of Sean Kempton and Michaela O’Connor, ever since I saw it with...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Chapter 224: On Cloud Swings in Life and Sturgeon Moons

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"Lucy, if I gave you the sun and the moon, you’d ask for the stars as well," Mum would say to Little My, as Dad called me. She mi...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Chapter 223: Harping on about Circus and Happy St Patrick's Day!

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Circus is a jealous bitch. Early in my circus obsession, Irish harpist Ursula Burns — in Tumble Circus' show "Damn the Circus!...
Friday, 31 January 2025

Chapter 222: The Juggling Saint

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  Normally, the only thing I celebrate on 31st January each year is my sister’s birthday. But this year is a little different. A few weeks a...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Chapter 221: Magnificent Zippos Encore!

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It was another quiet May morning strolling down Althorpe Road towards Wandsworth Common. On a breeze floated a few petals from the cherry bl...
Friday, 11 October 2024

Chapter 220: Life as Circus: Lessons from Art, Language, and Beyond

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After running off to the circus for six years, then sailing around the world for two, retraining as a modern languages teacher when we got b...
Sunday, 3 September 2023

Chapter 219: Zippos Nomads

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 As if by magic a circus appeared... Like the shopkeeper who would materialize each time in the fancy dress shop and conjure up a new advent...