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Ahem 2018

ZENOSYNE EGGNOG TIPTOED

Ahem The temperature around me dropped a full thirty degrees when I returned from Abidjan…

5. January 2019Read More

DIARRHOEA DIG CUPIDITY

Ahem While I and my colleagues at the Bank are paid good salaries, even by…

30. November 2018Read More

CLANK JUSTICE FROMAGER

Ahem There are no second hand markets in Abidjan: no Petticoat Lanes or Portobello Roads.…

1. November 2018Read More

VIM WORO-WORO FONIO

Ahem As Europe falls into yellow leafswirl, brown mulch and bright red bonfires, search-lit by…

30. September 2018Read More

KYBOSHED PILLION TABASKI

Ahem The curse of Shango, Yoruba God of thunder and lightning, is invoked against the…

31. August 2018Read More

MACHETE MALAGASY SYNOVIAL

Ahem A family from France are staying for a few weeks. They introduced a cheerful,…

3. August 2018Read More

ROOVES CROCODILES MONDEGREEN

Ahem The process of moving into my new home, a villa in a half-gated lane…

1. July 2018Read More

FRANTIC SPRAWLING LANTERNS

Ahem After the strong and positive family emotions around my brother Clive’s funeral, I had…

12. June 2018Read More

MY BROTHER CLIVE

Ahem To be honest, my brother Clive and I were too far apart in age…

10. May 2018Read More

HOMOPHONE KIMCHI BREEZY

Ahem I am growing very wary of the word “smart”. Never dependable or stable, the…

1. April 2018Read More

EPONYMOUS DIURNAL NETFLIX

Ahem Every morning and every evening over a million straw-coloured fruit bats make the flipflop-flapping…

4. March 2018Read More

DOWRY PSALMODY NIGERIA

Ahem To secure approval from the family, a box packed with whisky, rum, gin, champagne…

28. January 2018Read More

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Lionel Stanbrook is an editor, diarist, journalist, writer, re-writer, word designer, and content creator. This site contains the best of Lionel’s articles, prose, poetry, blogs, musings and perspectives, as well as a writer’s folio, a recent CV (perhaps the most creative part of all his work), and the monthly diary Ahem, written about his personal life, work, travel, emotions and experiences since 2004.

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