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Fat Ponies love: Cat Bruce
A long long time ago (last year), in a land far far away (Edinburgh College of Art), I had a student called Cat Bruce. Cat draws things and makes films. She lives with her young daughter Erin in...
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I knew I had a better story for the World Nomads travel writing competition. Last year I went to Koh Rong island. Ageing Korean buses through the Cambodian countryside. Sugar palm trees and paddy...
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10 small London joys
I am in danger of falling in love. It’s a strange thing, after all these years of avoiding moving to London, how swiftly I have embraced the city. Getting a job here has transformed my experience of...
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Summer notes
Forgive me, Fat Ponies. It has been a month since my last confession. In my youth, this, the very prime of summer, the blessed month between the fireworks of the 14th of July and the holiday klaxon of...
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Belligerence in residence
Amazing. The Fox Family album cover, by the multi-talented Andy Fielding.
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Le Train Bleu
At the top of the stairs a fat hairy ginger cat lies sprawled on its side, head propped up in the manner of a particularly lazy, disdainful Sphinx, surveying his domain: train tracks heading off...
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My Christmas
There’s a visible recoil when you tell someone you’re spending Christmas on your own. A barely perceptible intake of breath, eyebrows rising in suppressed horror, a softening of the eyes to indicate...
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Wig Wam Bam
Photo stolen from the official teepee website “When,” I asked Emma this morning with some anxiety, “Did I become the sort of person who hangs out in a teepee in Hoxton?” When indeed. The past year has,...
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