Mike Crowl's Random Notes

First published in Column Eight on the 31 st March 1993 Otago: wild coasts, arid inlands, lush pasturelands. A province of marvellous con...

First published in Column Eight on the 7 th April, 1993 I see some protester has scrawled obscenities on the Cenotaph. Downwards at an an...

 I haven't been keeping up with the groups of ten Spanish sentences that I was working on because I decided to finish memorising Psalm 1...

First published in Column 8, on the 24 th March, 1993 A few days ago I spent a pleasant half-hour writing a letter to an author, someone ...

First published in Column 8 on the 17 th March, 1993 Hamlet once told that patient and passive listener, Horatio, that there were more th...

First published in Column 8 on the 10 th March, 1993 Grammy award winner Eric Clapton sings a poignant song, with words along the lines o...

The sentence-fluency process I wrote about a few weeks ago hasn't been getting much elbow room over the last few weeks, but I have con...

First published in Column 8 on the 3 rd March, 1993 I’ve written previously about studies done in the United States on bald and bearded ...

First published in Column 8 on the 24 th February, 1993 I was interested in the Voice of Television’s reaction to the spate of attempted ...

First published in Column Eight on the 14 th Feb, 1993 I was disappointed to read that the distributors, Everard Films, had taken off the...