Hello, my friend,Despite my announcement last week, I haven't split this newsletter into two different ones just yet - I’ve been without my laptop and creating new email funnels on my phone is too much of a pain. Putting this newsletter together at a...

Hello and welcome to the Polish-English Procrastilearning megamix thingy,Polish stuffA few weeks ago, I wrote about the big Witkacy exhibition now on in Warsaw and mentioned a painting of my grandmother Kazimiera Żuławska that I noticed was absent fr...

Hi, it's me again,Polish stuffFirst off, many thanks to the reader who sent me this Polish cover of Frank Sinatra's My Way by Stachursky, the same guy that did the Chesney Hawkes thing from last week. The new Polish title Żyłem Jak Chciałem immediate...

Well hello,First off, somebody wrote to me asking if there was a recording of that conversation at YIVO about Pola Nireńska that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. The answer is yes! You can find it here.Polish stuffElsewhere, I was quite amused this...

Hi,The Queen died a few hours after I sent out my last newsletter. Sad news and certainly a seismic change for the UK.Other than The Queue, the most fascinating consequence is how you realise nobody really remembers the Queen not being around. You ha...

Hi,A short one this week, as I've been preoccupied with family matters.Polish stuffA few weeks back I helped prepare some of the materials for this online conversation next week at YIVO about Pola Nireńska. It's with Weronika Kostyrko, the author of...

Hello!It's finally September. One of only two months with consistently good weather (the other is May). Very glad to be out of the heatwave months. Of course, I say that but we'll probably have the hottest September ever 🤷‍♂️Polish stuffI recently di...

Hello there!Our household had stomach flu this week and it kinda messed up a lot of plans. So I'm mostly just gonna ramble about Twitter this week.Polish stuffDue to the writing course I've been doing, I've been spending a lot of time on Twitter. Lik...

Hello again!Firstly, thank you to all of you who've emailed with your feedback. I really appreciate it! 🤗 It's also helped me realise that although I can receive emails on this address, I can't reply (I thought I had finally fixed this account, argh!...

Hi everybody!See, told you I would email again ;)Polish stuffI was contacted the other day by the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It turns out they want to put on a new exhibition of Marek Zulawski paintings next year at the University Museu...