She who roams by the cemetery
April 26, 2020
I don’t know whether the woman who roams by the cemetery is Romany, but she is very much lost.
Reflect
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Entertainment corner
April 18, 2020
Here are some of the enjoyable or recommended films and programmes I’ve watched throughout the lockdown.
Good as Gold
April 16, 2020
He repeatedly gurgled, ‘Marieme, Marieme.’ And something about accara fritters and sosu kaani sauce.
The tall avenues of nothing
April 11, 2020
I watch the scene at the top of the tall avenues: there’s nothing. Barcelona is a city of fiestas and insofar as it’s a city of siestas, the difference now is that the sleep people fall into is morose, immoderate.
The purples of Ronda
April 11, 2020
We discuss whether or not to distance ourselves from other tourists, without having the language to validate what in other times, would be labelled a prejudice.
With a bit of perspective
April 10, 2020
Nothing seemed especially different that day, except perhaps the dissonance between the honeyed glow of the sun in people’s smiling faces and the intuition none of us could afford to be complacent.