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We are now officially a month into winter and, if you are like me, you feel somehow that this has been a lost year... months of waiting, months in suspension. The feeling now is that we must just get the rest of the year over with, so that we can start again.
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And the amount of bad news is so numbing that it is quite easy to feel as if we just want to sleepwalk the last few months until.. spring, maybe? New Year, maybe?
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However, there is much going on beneath the surface. Life has to continue, and our Safreans have been busy. Some have been fortunate to be able to continue working. Otherwise have been forced to find other ways to survive. What they all have, is stories. And here are some of them:
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What to watch this week:
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The last of the Dandy Scandis:
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The Bridge is everything that is best about Nordic Noir.
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It creates a world where you no-one smiles, the sun never shines, you can't throw a brick without hitting a deranged serial murderer, and there is no such thing as an ordinary cop just doing a job. Scandinavian police, for some reason, are all completely conflicted, with messy personal lives, twisted psyches and dark imaginings. It might sound nutty, but it makes for completely compulsive viewing.
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The series is so good (it comprises four seasons) that the Americans tried a rip-off, which sank like, well, like a falling bridge. The plotlines do get a bit clunky sometimes, but if you have to stay in a cave and to use up time till this virus dies down, this is one of the better ways to do it.
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Revolutionary chic, back to school (sort of) and Bill Gates takes fight to anti vaxxers (sort of)
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People around the world are reacting to the various lockdowns in various ways. Our alternative newshound takes a jaundiced look at the week's events …
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RAMBLINGS OF A PANIC-STRICKEN FREELANCER
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It's not easy being me. This might be the cry of the average freelancer, who has found the work-rug vanish from under their feet. Freelancing has always been an insecure career choice, but when people are forced into freelancing through lack of jobs, it is even more insecure.
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Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed
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In the first of a regular column, our Book Worm reviews a recommended book choice. Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini has produced a new work, and this is how our Book Worm sees it.
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Where Words Take Us - Cardigan
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In another regular column, Where Words Take Us looks at random words and how they allow us to explore our world.
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Just imagine if Cyril banned chocolate!
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You can relax, that might never happen, but there is very definitely a move towards making your own alcohol.
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Brighten Your Days With Your Own Homebrew
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Safrean Niki Botes, in the public interest, did all the hard work in testing the idea of home brew. This is her conclusion:
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A New Beginning Each New Day - By Vaughan Jones.
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An Etheree poem is a certain style of poetry where each line contains one syllable more or less than the lince before. It is named after Etheree Taylor Armstrong, an American poet who invented this genre.
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Safrean Vaughan Jones wrote this poem in response to a challenge in the Poet's Corner Group in the Writing.com website.
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Wildlife outreach benefits communities affected by Covid-19 restrictions
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Yes, alright, we have to include a COVID story. But this is a good one - a group of people helping others get through the pandemic.
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