The One That Got Away – Deshan Tennekoon

A S H Smyth — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 07:43:43 +0000

The Sri Lankan author, Fulbright scholar and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did.

TRIGGER WARNING: includes bird-poo references.

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

NEWS AT A GLANCE

A S H Smyth — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:00:02 +0000

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In the United Kingdom 200 out of every million persons are employed as writers or editors.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, April 2 1907
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No-one has been found in a major search along the Torridge.

‘Pog mahone’ means ‘kiss my arse’, in Gaelic.

Some people do not like to read instructions.

In South Africa there is a town called Nilstrom, where Afrikaners thought that they had found the Nile.

Hitler was not indifferent to meals.

Embracing one’s girlfriend under lampposts is a bourgeois activity.

A grasshopper has been stuck in a painting by Van Gogh for 128 years.

Every minute, somewhere in the world, a man is taking his own life.

Hastings Banda was once a GP in Kilburn.

Ships of the Royal Navy carried slavery manuals until the 1970s.

For just £299 you can look 20 per cent younger.

The Pacific island of Peleliu cost the 1st Marine Division 6,500 casualties to secure in 1944. No further use was made of it in WW2.

Mediocrity is the one true demonic force.
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