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July 2021 Broadcast: Martina Nicolls





MARTINA NICOLLS - NEWS AND UPDATES FOR JULY 2021

Hello,

July in Paris will bring an almost full lifting of COVID-19 restrictions - with no night curfew. Summer events include music festivals, art and museum exhibitions, vintage car shows, independent cinema programs, pop-up food stalls, and the pro-environment festival called "We Love Green."

... All Alice could see when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her. 

"What can all that green stuff be?" said Alice.

(Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel "Alice Through the Looking Glass")

Regards, Martina



NEW WEBSITE: A FLOWER EXPECTED EVERYWHERE

In May, I launched a new website called A FLOWER EXPECTED EVERYWHERE. View the website HERE.


PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO 

I've added some new photographs to my portfolio. Merchandise with photographs can be purchased via the links.

Photograph: Sunshine Yellow Daisies. Photograph and merchandise for sale HERE.

Photograph: Lime Tree. Photograph and merchandise for sale HERE.


More photographs and merchandise are available HERE.


MORE GREEN STUFF




PARIS BLOGS ON MY WEBSITE: THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE 
The blogs on my website The Paris Residences of James Joyce are under the category Opal Hush, connecting the past to the present, and discovering people and places in Paris. Opal Hush is mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It's a drink - a quarter of a glass of claret topped with lemonade from a soda siphon. Opals are my favourite gemstone, and hush ... well, it's just a whisper!

OPAL HUSH


Read blog: Animal Art Installations in the Luxembourg Garden, Paris


MY WEBSITE: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

Website: Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom.

Read blog: Juvenile Azara's Agouti (about the 2-week-old baby Agouti at the Paris Zoo


POPULAR BOOK REVIEWS
On my blog site, Feast or Famine, I include book reviews, food, photographs, and articles. And photographs of walks around the streets of my current location.

Read book review: Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood.


A SIGN OF THE TIMES

"Borde" - Paris, 30 May 2021


THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE 
My latest book, The Paris Residences of James Joyce, was released on 1 May 2020. In March 2021, the book was a finalist in the 2021 Book Excellence Awards in the Biography category.

READ MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE

The GIVEAWAY: ONE (1) PACKET OF 5 GREETING CARDS WITH THE PARIS BOOK COVER PHOTO closed on 30 June 2021. The winner Is Tanvir from Poland.

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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author  of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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