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Rorie Smith. Writer.
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Ex UK journo. Living in Bordeaux, France. Still calls Cornwall home. Writing novels. Published by WriteSideLeft. Station Philosophers' Club available Feb 28

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Marilyn Monroe, if still alive, would have been great as the heroine in an SPC film. There is a reason she could never have got the part. First person to guess gets an Aston Martin or a chocolate biscuit - but not both.

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May 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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JULIUS CAESAR, Julius Caesar,
Squashed his nose in a lemon squeezer...

But he still bought a copy of SPC!

😍
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April 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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GOVERNMENT OF ALBANIA: Fifty boxes of Station Philosopher’s Club ordered. To be placed on former dictator Enver Hoxha’s grave to make sure he doesn’t climb out. ( Well known fact: EH believed in vampires).

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April 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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WELL KNOWN FACT: Elon Musk is using copies of the Station Philosophers' Club to build his base on Mars.
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April 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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BOOK LAUNCH: Thanks to all who came to the launch for The Station Philosophers' Club in Bordeaux. Evening made by the unexpected appearance of Charles and Camilla who just 'dropped in' to say hello and have a glass of champagne.
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April 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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APRIL16th. This coming Wednesday.
Got a free evening?
Come along to Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux.
Launch of SPC.
7.30pm to 9.00 pm.
Music, bubbles, nibbles.
All welcome
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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JOHN F KENNEDY: Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
Perhaps buy a copy of the Station Philosophers’ Club?
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See you at Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux on the 16th( April). 7.30pm for launch?
April 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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BREAKING NEWS.... REVIEW JUST IN FROM JOHN MILTON:
That guy Lost me completely. Paradise? You having a laugh? Tell him to take up painting. House not canvas.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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PATIENCE NEEDED! A You Tube video of the writer ( me) reading the opening pages of The Station Philosophers' Club.

Click on roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site

Follow the You Tube link.

Recommend to others? And a customer review on Amazon/Good Reads?

( It's a love story to Bordeaux)

Thanks!
March 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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PIERRE HURMIC, Ecological/Green Mayor of Bordeaux:
‘ You mean they cut down a tree to print that?’
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March 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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LANDLORD OF ENGLISH PUB IN BORDEAUX: If that fellow comes in here one more time trying to flog his books I'll swear I’ll do him in and I don’t care if I swing for it.😮
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Launch at Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux. April 16. 7.30pm. All welcome.
March 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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KING CHARLES: Always carries a copy of The Station Philosophers’ Club under his crown.🤣

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(A love story to Bordeaux).

NOTE: Official launch Bradleys Bookshop. Rue de la Merci. Bordeaux. April 16th. 7.30pm. All welcome.
March 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Visit home to the UK. Delighted to find that at my daughter's home in Wiltshire they still get a daily milk delivery. Thought milk deliveries died out a generation ago? Didn't Norman Wisdom star as a milkman in the 1965 film "The Early Bird?" 😮

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#wiltshire
#quirkyfashion
March 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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First REVIEW for The Station Philosophers' Club is in!

It's from a Mr WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:

'A plague of pustules on this wretched scribe. Take away his plume and cast him into the foul waters of the Thames.'
Wow, thanks Bill! 😮
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( A love story to Bordeaux)
March 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE: Merde. Les putain d’anglais sont pire que les Americans. ( Translates as: The bloody English are worse than the Americans).

THE STATION PHILOSOPHERS’ CLUB

A love story to Bordeaux

AVAILABLE NOW!

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#IndieAuthor
#QuirkyFiction
March 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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END OF A TEACHERS DEMO IN BORDEAUX A FEW WEEKS AGO:
( Who despises the teachers despises the children)
Teachers in France are badly paid - and there are not enough of them ...
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Meanwhile don't forget ....
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#IndieBook
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February 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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BORDEAUX: Opposite the Gare Saint-Jean. A misty morning a few days ago. Cafe du Levant. How lovely is that?
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February 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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BORDEAUX GARE SAINT-JEAN. Magnificent mural. Pre war rail map of SW France. Also routes of boats leaving for Canada, USA, Haiti, Uruguay, Morocco. Imperial ...but with a grandeur?
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February 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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SUMMER IN CORNWALL: A reminder of last year and fingers crossed for this ...

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February 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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LAST SUMMER: Coming to the top of a crest on the Camino del Cid.
#caminodelcid
#caminosantiago
#wayofstjames
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January 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Nothing to do with me 'guv....
Place de la Victoire. Bordeaux.

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January 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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First hint of spring? Truc Vert, Cap Ferret, Plages Aquitaines. So clear if you look hard enough you can see America.

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January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Alpujarras, Sierra Nevada. Picture of Pampaneria taken on the steep path down from Bubion. Taken with internet equivalent of Box Brownie.... Later read South from Granada. Gerald Brennan. His life in that area 1920 to 1934. Warm, generous, human. Treat yourself.

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January 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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PICTURE FROM LAST SUMMER: A visit home to Cornwall. Cawsand. Actually I did once find the end of a rainbow. But it was only an old tree stump. Maybe I should have dug underneath it....

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January 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Bordeaux Quinconces. Late afternoon, bleak mid winter. Cold enough to freeze your ears off. First springtime cruise boats chugging up the river with their compliment of cheery passengers will surely raise all our spirits.
#Bordeauxmaville
#afternoonwalk
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January 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM