As our prime minister, Mr Micawber….oops, sorry, Mrs May, is well-known for thinking, something will turn up. Surely it will? Won’t it? As...
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Stieg Larsson’s first book in his Millennium trilogy was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, published in 2005. (A photo of the cover is on the ho...
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Gary Oldman has apparently said he smoked 12 cigars a day for three months in order to achieve the right rasping sound of Winston Churchill’s vo...
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A few weeks ago I was on a flight to somewhere and, quite unusually for me, I had my headphones on, listening to music, while the plane was being boar...
Read MoreFLYING: Going nuts (or not!) in the air
In November, my wife and I returned to Antigua. It looked as good as always (as you get an idea of from the photo on the home page). We did quite a lo...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Glorious panoramas but dodgy planning in paradise
In Douglas Adams’ famous novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the ‘Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life,...
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A couple of months ago I visited the annual art fair, Frieze London, held near the centre of town in Regent’s Park. It was a fantasy of sorts, i...
Read MoreFANTASY: All the fun of the (art) fair at Frieze
Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...
Read MoreFUN: Flunking the spelunking…except in Mallorca
La Poule au Pot inhabits a quiet corner of London SW1 – not quite Belgravia, not quite Sloane Square, certainly not Victoria. It’s a tradi...
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