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While You’re Asleep.

February 3, 2012

Waking after three, Damien knew that he was deeply cold before he could recollect who or where he was. He …

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Some “Reasonable Alternatives” to the LDP’s Main Issues Report.

November 22, 2011

Tychy has previously reviewed the Main Issues Report which precedes the draughting of Edinburgh’s Local Development Plan. But here are …

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A Midsummer Romance.

July 17, 2010

There is little work in the city at this time of year and all that the agency has to offer …

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Bump in the Night.

February 7, 2010

I went to my brother’s apartment for dinner last night, and could not help observing that whilst he leaned back …

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Unmann’d by Folly.

January 9, 2010

The price tag of over two hundred and fifty pounds on those Nicole Farhi leather brogues would have urged lesser …

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Gone to the Dogs.

June 3, 2009

I finally learned her name and address: Ellen Stewart, Grange Cottage EH26. The cottage had been a satellite of one …

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Letter concerning the whereabouts of Marcin.

January 13, 2009

Dear Tychy. I was only an occasional reader of your website until recently, when my eye was caught by a …

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Noctes Ambrosianae (6).

August 21, 2008

(SCENE: Somewhere in the Pentlands.) Tychy: … pass me some more of that delicious cold piglet. Olaf: This bit of …

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A Tale from the Hills.

April 30, 2008

I had just finished dinner last night when I heard the sound of my little brother’s sports car pulling up …

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