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June 2013

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Making Progress

After months of good intentions, I finally made it down to Camberwell in South London to the This Is Progress wrestling school this morning. There, under the watchful eye Jimmy Havoc, I learned a huge amount about the things I am doing well and the things I am doing badly. This is just as wel...

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Cumming on Back

Now that I am back in the UK, it only makes sense to bring back one of the best things about my life at home. My band, the incomparable Gay Bum. After 2 years of absence from the UK music scene, we have decided to do some kind of comeback tour. We are calling the tour Cumming on Back, for obv...

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Merry Downloadmas!

I have returned from the Download Festival, exhausted. Not for the first time in my life (or even this week), I grossly overestimated my endurance. It turns out that climbing Mount Doom, catching a 9-hour bus, drinking all night, sleeping on a sofa, catching a 24-flight and (12-hours later) embar...

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Climbing Mount Doom

Today, I climbed Mount Doom. For those too boring to be familiar with Lord of the Rings, please see below: The ascent of the mountain, which is actually a volcano called Mount Ngauruhoe, starts a couple of hours into the Tongariro Crossing. Alas, I was told by my shuttle bus driver that I wou...

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Old Norse Fun

One of the very many things I enjoy about Ancient Icelandic literature is the insights into their culture that the language offers. In my Old Norse dictionary, for example, there is no word for harvest. There are, however, 9 different words for battle, 6 for smite, 5 for fight, 5 more for att...

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