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Travel Mainly in black and white

I've written something about some travel-related photos Dad took. open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

Objectives Going the extra (few thousand) miles.

Going the extra mile (or two).

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Putain Finding the right word

I've been mulling about the right word...

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Standing desks. | Paul Appleyard Standing desks. A brief post today to remind myself (and any other unfortunate souls who end up reading it too) that every day is a learning day. After yesterday morning’s online interpreting sessio...

Over on LinkedIn, I’ve written something about a standing desk. Well, sort of…
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Peak French It’s all about the bread.

Peak French, whatever that might be...

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#litranslators | Paul Appleyard Switching focus.   Yesterday’s walk was one I’ve done a zillion times before, along the canal from Deepcut before crossing the railway (well, using a tunnel to cross under the railway, not trying to d...

Over on LinkedIn, I've written something about learning.
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You don't get that kind of excitement working online!

(or do you...?)

Mist Clearing...

I've just realised that I've missed an opportunity to name a post after a Clint Eastwood film, but I'm not going to go back and rewrite it now... open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

Tradition Old, yet new (to us at least)

A day in Mechelen

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#litranslators | Paul Appleyard Knowing what you’re doing.   Before I started work this morning, I popped into town to go to the shops. Cheese levels in the fridge were getting dangerously low and I was worried that lunch might end ...

Over on LinkedIn, I’ve written a little post about knowing what you’re doing.

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Pausing Digitally

Over on Substack, I started to write a post which was going to be insightful on the subject of digital detoxes, but then just started wittering on about this and that before the whole thing just petered out.

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Dirty Courage Keeping things salty yet clean

Dirty courage, on sale here...
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#litranslators | Paul Appleyard Bigging yourself up. Invisible mending, a service offered on many High Streets across the UK. I suspect it’s a service offered on High Streets, Main Streets, or rues commerçantes (at this point, I’m ...

Over on LinkedIn, I’ve been vaguely wondering about bigging yourself up www.linkedin.com/posts/paulap...

A day in the life of Paul Appleyard Welcome to DITL of a freelance translator, where we attempt to answer the question “What do translators do all day?” This week we’re asking Paul Appleyard, an award-winning interp…

Words about me. Fiction, obviously.

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Manners When I was told off for being polite.

Manners maketh a problem with HR... open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

#litranslators | Paul Appleyard April   The month when mother-in-law sort of almost realised that I might be able to speak French.   I’ve known my wife’s mother for almost as long as I’ve known her daughter. Habitual readers will kn...

I chalked up a little victory in April www.linkedin.com/posts/paulap...

On it!

Books No batteries required

I've been musing about books.
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Cheese Revealing the human truth

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Necropolis or Necrophilia What’s in a word?

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Badger The early interpreter catches the worm

A post which isn't really about early-rising interpreters eating worms. Honest!
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Brickwork Building on previous accomplishments

Musings on brickwork and legacy open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

Good luck!

Good to know!

#litranslators | Paul Appleyard Not massively impressed with the UK's new travel authorisation app. I've just installed it on (French) Mother-in-law's phone to apply for her ETA. She's not…

Poor work on the new ETA app by the UK Government www.linkedin.com/posts/paulap...

#litranslators | Paul Appleyard I walked past this door somewhere in London the other day. It caught my eye because, of course, I – like many of you, am in the communication business…

Musing about Communication House
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Memory lane Or should that be memory hotel?

Back down memory lane again open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

Legacy Will you be remembered, and if so, how?

Musings about something or other, over on Substack open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

Time standing still Looking back

Looking back, not just at coffee and strawberries open.substack.com/pub/paulappl...

There once was a translator called Isabel
She did her translations extremely well
One day she did a short poem
But there was no way of knowin'
That she finished it by throwing a magic spell