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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...
Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Chapter 218: Traces of Rebecca Youseffi in Transmission at Jacksons Lane

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  How does Rebecca Youseffi define herself? "Just a painter" in one interview. An artist who took up aerial in her 20s as a hobby,...
Friday, 11 August 2023

Chapter 217: Rosa-Maria Autio in Transmission, Jacksons Lane

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 "Anyone else, with any other explanation, and it would be another story," Sam said later, "but for you Lucy, I get it, circu...