richard coles

Former Communard ,Chancellor of the University of Northampton , writer, broadcaster,podcaster , author of the Canon Clement Mysteries.Please don't shout at me

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It is Ash Wednesday tomorrow, the beginning of Lent, and I’ll be off social media until Easter.

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Melted a knob of butter in a pan to make a mushroom omelette for breakfast, went to get the mushrooms and remembered I’d eaten them last night. So I made scrambled eggs instead, but they came out quite omeletty. Hobbesian start to the day, no?

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A long schlep back from Assam and up jet-lag early so I bake a loaf of wholemeal and realised I was home when I took it out of the oven and said, “Why swells’t thou then?” like John Donne thinking about death.

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Back to skool.

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BREAKING Pratik and Ganesh have sourced a new bottle of Amrut.

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Met a mask maker on Majuli.

Do you know what material they use to form the mask over the bamboo frame?

Cow dung.

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“Conquerors are not cool” Jeff Bezos.

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News reaches Assam of this bafflingly obtuse idea to let AI devour authors’ copyright material. Get your horrible algorithms off my property!

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I am a very picky whisky drinker but Ganesh who runs this bar directed me to Amrut single malt and it is fantastic. Last night I asked for my usual and he smiled apologetically and said I had drunk the whole bottle.

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Reading Alan Hollinghurst’s marvellous new novel which chimes so much with my own life I keep expecting one of the characters to be reading Alan Hollinghurst’s marvellous new novel.

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Kids playing ‘ludoludo’ in break time in a tribal village where their school fell into the Brahmaputra last year because erosion is so severe. Everything’s built out of tin and bamboo so they can pick it up and carry it inland when they need to.

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Just saw a tiger in the wild. This is not my picture, I wasn’t quick enough, but�� TIGER IN THE WILD