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Tag Archives: Drink

Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.

April 27, 2012

We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …

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This Is The Country You Live In.

April 22, 2012

His daughter, Haley, was to blame. Haley was only three, however, and it is generally considered unreasonable to blame a …

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Life and Death.

March 26, 2012

Every party has a distinguishing characteristic, and somebody had brought a telescope to this one. News of the telescope would …

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600 in the Club.

January 9, 2012

Interview with Yang Guang and Tian Tian.

December 13, 2011

[Scene: The Standing Order.] Tychy: So how much time will we have with them? James: They said that they would …

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Gripes at the Grapes.

November 6, 2011

Tychy has never set foot in the Grapes, an “old man’s pub” on Clerk Street, because I like pretty girls …

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Tori and Renata.

October 24, 2011

Women are like drinks – you should never mix them, or else the result is invariably a terrible headache – …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool.

August 6, 2011

It is the first Friday night of the Fringe and the streets are sweltering in a high fever. There is …

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Heebie Jeebies.

June 25, 2011

Let me take you back several summers to when Marcin was fixated with the pygmies. He had read about the …

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The Enchanted Forest.

May 4, 2011

Over a hundred miles of forest waited for us, every leaf and twig ready to be picked up and inspected. …

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Supermoon.

April 2, 2011

[Dedicated to anybody who celebrated the recent Supermoon. There is more lunar fare on Tychy here and here. Ed.]

Bewitched in Lovers’ Loan.

March 16, 2011

The suburbs south of the Meadows have a Gothicism all of their own, deriving from a particularly Gothic conception of …

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An Impromptu Dance. by A. J. Alan.

February 23, 2011

["An Impromptu Dance" is a short story which was first narrated by "A. J. Alan" in a BBC Radio broadcast …

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Pee-Pod.

January 28, 2011

[The source for this is here. Tychy previously wrote about the forty-pound fines here. Ed.]

Intervention.

January 12, 2011

I had been temping at the undertakers for several weeks before the head of the firm, Feliks, finally invited Renata …

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