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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Amazon lists my novel

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There’s no doubt about it: my novel All the Earth is Mine is now available through Amazon like any ordinary book… and probably right thro...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Nice fellow

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The more I hear about the encounters of Pope Francis with the modern world, the more I get the impression that this nice fellow (an except...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Longest European train ever

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I suggest that you start the following video immediately.  Like many people, I love to watch trains go past. I hope you share with ...

Must change my thinking

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In a split second of intense revelation, I was stunned by an amazing video produced by Infinite Circularity Ministries . It convinced me tha...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Chimpanzee returns to the jungle

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This moving video contains amazing moments of tenderness between the chimpanzee Wounda , about to be released in the Congo jungle, her care...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Celebrated Dutch painter of Pont-en-Royans

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Bob ten Hoope [1920-2014] One of the most interesting individuals I encountered when I came to live in Choranche in 1994 was the Dut...

Gamone has been Google-mapped

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I’ve just discovered, by chance, that Google Maps apparently carried out a street-view operation at Gamone in May 2013. Here’s the road le...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Cover for my book on paternal genealogy

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I’ll soon be needing a cover image for They Sought the Last of Lands , which describes the paternal dimension of my family history. Here’s a...

My mother's birthday

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I must admit that I tend to talk and think as if everybody in the universe has been enthralled by  Kurt Vonnegut [1922-2007] in general an...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Gamone panorama

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My English cousin Roger Latton (on my paternal Pickering line) came to visit me last summer, with his wife Sue . An excellent photographer...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

She-wolf of France

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Up until recently, the principal subject of discussion in France was the sad state of the nation and the apparent failure of François Hollan...

Cover for my book on maternal genealogy

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Up until now, I’ve been using the following cover for the typescript of my book on maternal genealogy, soon to be published by Gamone Press...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Authenticity versus decoration

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Following up on my previous blog post [ display ], I wish to tackle here the interesting questions of basic distinctions—both structural an...

Pizza oven obstacles

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Towards the end of my recent article entitled Damaged wood shed [ display ], I made the following announcement: I would like to install m...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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