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Paul Kaye
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Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels/London. MCIL, FRGS, BWFC.
107. Hanging On: a life in British climbing’s golden age by Martin Boysen
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Higher and higher
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
106. We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
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Nobel documents ignobility
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
105. Mountaineering & British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, by Simon Bainbridge
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The poet ascending
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
104. Summer Lightning by PG Wodehouse
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Memoir ditched easily
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Yes they are!
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
They seem to be proliferating. I saw one near Merode yesterday after very many years of never seeing foxes in Brussels. And one caused a stir on the Schuman roundabout yesterday.
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
103. Moving the Needle: how an average climber can do the hardest route in the world, by Dave MacLeod
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Lessons for self
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
102. Król Warmii i Saturna by Joanna Wilengowska
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A forgotten nation
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
May I ask which village?
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They thrashed my team a fortnight ago and had another good result today.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
101. An Alphabet of Storms by Henry Normal
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Punning poetry pleases
October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
100. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
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Escaping familiar room
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
99. Geoffrey Winthrop Young: poet, mountaineer, educator by Alan Hankinson
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Challenging the establishment
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I saw the cricket stadium but went the wrong direction from Lords.
October 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
98. Let’s Go Climbing by Colin Kirkus
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Patronising and sexist
September 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
97. The Zen of Climbing by Francis Sanzaro
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Could’ve subtracted more
August 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
You may know this already, but the Senne is a river, just not in France.
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
96. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Arts, not books
August 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
95. A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl by Audrey Salkeld
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An ambiguous legacy
August 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
94. Nottingham, tome 1: La Rançon du roi by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu
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Bad to good
July 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If they’re asking because they simply don’t understand why there is variation, would that just be ignorance rather than ableist? If they have some knowledge of why the variation exists, and are questioning why it needs to exist, would that be the point where it becomes ableist?
July 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
93. L’Arabe du futur, tome 2: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1984-1985), by Riad Sattouf
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Had forgotten Tintins
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
92. Dart by Alice Oswald
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Copious broken eddies
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s wondrous. I read the first three volumes a few years ago but somehow stalled at the (much thicker) fourth, which has been waiting on my shelf the last few years. But a friend choosing it as her book-club pick has given me the chance to start it again. Such a pleasure. And another five to come!
June 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM