“The closing four pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I’ve ever done—the harmony bites like nitric acid – the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God.”
Miscellaneous
Funny where the time goes
On that day The Moodie Report was born. Perhaps in kindredship with its creator, it wasn’t a particularly beautiful baby. The first edition was a 6-page pdf. No frills. No photographs. No advertising. No subscription fee. And according to some, no hope.
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Miscellaneous
Time to abandon the rear view mirror
It takes me 12 strides to walk the approximate 10-metre length of my room. That means 150 ‘laps’ or 1,800 strides to do my equivalent of the 1,500 metres. Today I plan to set a new personal best in a probably futile attempt to delay the onset of madness.
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Miscellaneous
Rain and shine, a room indoors and edging towards a revival
Our gathering evoked the value of the relationships that so many of us in the industry have forged over many years, and the trust and friendship that underpins them.
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Lifestyle
Out in the jungle while a mad Zookeeper runs amok
“We did our makeup to hang out and did not want to ruin it. Sweat and makeup is not a good combination, and it can be dangerous to sit in a hot mask on a long journey like we had.” Dangerous… yeah, right.
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Events
A heavenly view in Ystradgynlais and a 365 view of TFWA
This is just about as quiet an interim bureau as I have ever inhabited during the past 19 years, especially as it is one of those rare places in the UK that has no wi-fi signal, perhaps a sign from someone on high telling me I need to slow down.
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Miscellaneous
Travel retail B.C. and P.C.
Case numbers are certainly not low here. Not that I would know it judging from my first walk through my local village today, when there was nary a mask in sight.
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Travel
Collinson joins the dots as I return to the skies
The closest I have come to an overseas trip in ten months is via my regular ferry rides between Discovery Bay and Central. Now I can experience the real thing again at last.
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Miscellaneous
Songs from the sky in China and scenes of madness in London
When comparing notes while, like me, working on the weekend, Tian Qin quoted me an old Chinese proverb, ‘Happy life is from hard working.’ I guess that makes me a very happy man indeed.
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Miscellaneous
Tuning into Edvard Grieg’s Morning Moodie
Amid all the talk about sector ‘recovery’, the reality is that any such curve is going to be country by country, route by route, step by step (in both directions). Inch by bloody inch.
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People
Arise Sunil Tuli, man of steel
Unless Sunil’s own extreme magnetism sets off the airport metal detector, the titanium plate will not.
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Miscellaneous
Down with doomscrolling and in with Inspirescrolling on International Women’s Day
There are plenty of positive stories if you know where to look for them and both want and know how to write them.
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Lifestyle
Stepping lightly into another half-decade
Half time goes by/Suddenly you’re wise/Another blink of an eye/Sixty-four is gone.