Yesterday I passed the Shell petrol station at Manor Park a few hours after it had been damaged by fire. There was a burnt out truck by the pumps and the area was cordoned off with a yellow tape, marked
Police crime scene Do not cross Police crime scene Do not cross
I imagined some kind of […]
Teller: I’m sorry, Sir, but this line is for Gold Card holders only.
Policeman: And M-16 holders?
Teller: … That’ll do nicely, Sir.
“OK, Mrs Musgrave. I think we’ve done as much as we can down here. Perhaps you’d like to step upstairs for our new innovation in skin rejuvenation …”
Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Currently resident in Dakar, Senegal.
Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.
...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.
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