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Ich habe vergessen; by Eddie Farrell

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ankuendigen – to announce achten – to respect anblicken – to look at aufarbeiten – to reappraise – to look at again……………………………………………….. Over the last few months I have been keeping a word book; noting down all the new German words I come across. Before the book, which is really 3 notebooks joined together to
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Finsbury Art Festival: Sat 27th Feb 11am-4pm

On Saturday February 27th, from 11am to 4pm, we’ll be at the Finsbury Art Festival. Our little contribution to this positive cornucopia of fun things to do in the Art Zone will be showing off the pamphlet stitch. This simple little stitch, used for centuries by anyone from teeth-grinding political radicals to quaint little crafts-people,
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Schools out. Berlin December 2009

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On Friday I finished an 8 week block of German Language learning and with that my head for the first time in two months has begun to clear a little to formulate a few thoughts. Last year when I began to try and learn the German language I looked at a few course introductions on
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an der ecke: by Eddie Farrell

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 It has been a month of corners. I suppose it began with looking down the Landwehrkanal from the corner of Luetzowufer and Klingelhoefer Strasse and realising for the first time just how close the Bauhaus Archive building is to to Potsdammer Platz. Potsdammer Platz, during the inter-war years was the busiest crossroads in Europe. However
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Brueke die Brig part II by Eddie Farrell

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20 minutes later I’m off the train and breathing in the clear air of Kirkcaldy.  Years ago the place stank of Linoleum, the weird thing was that the whole of Britain seemed to know about it; at Leeds City Station in 1980, I was having my ticket checked by an elderly rail employee; he looked
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Brueke die Brig – part 1 by Eddie Farrell

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I visited Scotland a couple of weeks ago. It was an early start from Berlin and as the plane juddered high above the Forth Estuary on approach to the Scottish capital, I hadn’t had a wink of sleep; the constant offering up of tea, luxury coffee, Panini’s, gambling and snacks (Snaarks),had seen to that. To
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Eddie Farrell: Speak

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When I was 45 I moved to Berlin and overnight lost my voice. 7 months on, I consider myself to be in a very privileged place; floating between languages These bright summer mornings I wake up early to bird song and the sound of the odd car on the road. Both posess an international language;
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