You will doubtless have noticed that the England football team was in Portugal last week, playing and losing 3-1 to Holland and then playing and beati...
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Yes, it’s Greece again! Following on from my trip to the Peloponnese in February, this time it was a family trip to Corfu. (Or Cor-Phew, as I...
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A COMIC/SERIOUS IMMORALITY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (a fantasy if it’s your sort of scene) The story starts in London a little over two years ago, beg...
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Rocketman is the story of Elton John (or Reg Dwight to give him his name when he was a piano-obsessed small boy in Pinner, Middlesex). If one reads ...
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Earlier this month, we did something we have only ever done once before; stayed overnight at an airport hotel. My wife had booked our BA flight to Cor...
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Dale Chihuly is styled as the “world’s most celebrated glass artist”. I have no idea how stiff the competition is for that accolade ...
Read MoreFUN: Epic glass in glass houses (and elsewhere)
You may have heard of the chef, James Cochran. He won the Great British Menu 2018, one of those food programmes on the BBC that seem to crop up as oft...
Read MoreFOOD: A great British menu in 2019
A COMIC/SERIOUS IMMORALITY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (a fantasy if it’s your sort of scene) The story starts in London just over two years ago, beginni...
Read MoreFANTASY: Love is a Battlefield – Part 9 of 10
On a hot day earlier this month, I espied the car below on a street in central London. The temperature was appropriate, because this particular vehicl...
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