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Some more Crush characters…

Posted on April 18, 2017 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s Raymond Chandler quotation is from his 1943 novel The High Window: A tall, fine-looking man in a grey suit cut by an angel suddenly stood up from a small table by the wall and walked … Continue reading →

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Veronica and the greased cogs…

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s special colours are: bugle black, ferret fawn, languid lemon, rhubarb rouge, godly grey, and voluptuous vert. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It must, as it was posted through the letterbox in the front door, have somehow slipped behind that … Continue reading →

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Some of Crush’s spare names…

Posted on January 25, 2017 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: uppity, telescopic, poufed, haughty, premorse, monomaniacal, kenotic, retiary, and bouncy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aha! I just received an email from Veronica Crush, writer from the glory days of the Hull Surrealist League, now … Continue reading →

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Crush picks up her pen again…

Posted on December 26, 2016 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s elephant in the room is the one that just sat on the host’s Stradivarius viola which he had stupidly left on the sofa. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A short email this morning from Veronica Crush, writer from the … Continue reading →

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Veronica and the spare characters…

Posted on December 17, 2016 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s weather will feature: exploding whiteness on high, a badly painted azure and cream backdrop, falling scallops of spiteful ice, and horizontal slices of slimy orange and obscene pink as evening encroaches. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I received an … Continue reading →

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Crush’s characters…

Posted on September 21, 2016 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s charming Victorian London expletive is ‘by my precious sparklers!’ – from Pierce Egan’s Life in London of 1821, which quotes a couple of ‘undesirable’ females, one Dirty Suke and one Squinting Nan who was often … Continue reading →

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Crush in the rain and wind…

Posted on July 18, 2016 by

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s sounds are those of near bees and distant lawnmowers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I had an email this morning from Veronica Crush, writer from the glory days of the Hull Surrealist League, now living in New York with … Continue reading →

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