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The Sound of Gun Fire – Music and The Great War

War? What is it good for? Not quite absolutely nothing… Throughout the twentieth century, war inspired many musicians and composers. Some glorified it, but many opposed it. The protests against the...

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Dabbler Diary: Man Love, Mackerel and Middle East Peace – Gangnam Style!

Has anyone else been watching the wonderful Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast? For those who aren’t familiar with him, Yotam is one half of the excellent Ottolenghi deli/cafés that have popped up...

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Looking deeply, not widely

Who says paths are for walking? Toby Ash has taken to stopping and looking. These words by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh have been playing on my mind: To know fully even one field or one land is a...

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A Musical Mezze

Toby Ash serves up a mezze of Middle Eastern musical delights… There is only one starting point to any post on Arab music and that’s Egypt and the ‘Star of the East’ Umm Kulthum, who is widely lauded...

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Magic of Mali

Mali may be economically impoverished, but as Toby Ash explains, it is musically wonderfully rich… I have quite an extensive collection of world music, but only recently did I notice that the majority...

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Inexplicable in any language – The Museum at Alte

Toby Ash makes an unexpected and bizarre discovery amongst the golf courses and white washed villas of Portugal’s Algarve…. The Algarve is not on most people’s cultural map. Lazing about in the sun, a...

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My secret booky nookie

Toby Ash confesses to a secret crush… For several years now I have posted quite regularly and have enjoyed participating in the wise, lively and good-natured banter that is daily Dabber life. So I...

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Sicilian Diary

Toby Ash has just enjoyed a long weekend in Palermo. Just don’t mention the M word… From the moment you land, it’s pretty hard to avoid the mafia in Sicily. Palermo’s Falcone-Borsellino airport is...

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Dabbler Heroes – Elizabeth David

It’s Boxing Day, and today marks the centenary of the birth of food writer Elizabeth David who, Toby Ash believes, still has more to offer the modern domestic kitchen than all of today’s celebrity...

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Philippines Diary

Toby Ash has spent much of the last year living in the Philippines working for an aid agency helping those affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the country in November 2013. This is his...

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