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Wintry weather in Chicago and Porthcawl
8th January 2014
by Mark Hawkins
Recent days have seen the news full of extreme weather images, many taken from Porthcawl in Britain, and Chicago in the United States. Chicago is currently suffering from freakishly freezing temperatures. When I visited around this time three years ago, it was the coldest I’d known a big city to be. Icebergs were liberally scattered across […]
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States of independence
4th July 2013
by Mark Hawkins
This post was sparked both by today being Independence Day, and by a BBC documentary broadcast last week, entitled “Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny’s Pictures?” The fascinating documentary tells the story of a thoroughly independent nanny who died in 2009, leaving behind thousands of photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by […]
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Wisconsin roadtrip
23rd June 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another travel blog. This about an aimless road-trip from Chicago around the state of Wisconsin in late 2010. “Do you want the change?” the checkout girl says, and I pause. She’s helped me pack my groceries in an unfamiliar type of tall paper bag of the kind characters carry in American sitcoms, so that’s probably […]