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Indian autumn

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

It’s one of the great clichés of travel-writing that India is an assault on the senses, but stepping outside the terminal building at Delhi airport, I’m lost for any other way to describe the experience of arriving in the sub-continent. … Continue reading →

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A ticklish matter

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

I met my first grandchild on Tuesday. She was four-and-a-bit days old. It also happened to be my sixtieth birthday. What a birthday present. It won’t be too long, I expect, before she discovers that she is quisquillosa. This is … Continue reading →

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The rain in Spain

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m on the train to catch a plane to fly to Spain where the rain, I hope, stays mainly on the plain. We, the Dark Angels, will be in the mountains of Andalucia – where fellow writer John Simmons and … Continue reading →

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Cherish the stories

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Jamie Jauncey

There’s a wise storyteller called David Campbell who cuts a distinctive figure about Edinburgh with his kilt and ponytail. ‘Story is the lifeline of human consciousness,’ says David. ‘Stories do not argue. They speak to the heart.’ Smart organisations have … Continue reading →