One is regularly reading about how tough it is for restaurants in the present financial climate, what with increased costs for the proprietors and the...
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I went to see the new Paddington film this week. Informally it’s called Paddington 3 but in fact its title is Paddington in Peru. And financiall...
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You are probably aware that the government announced its budget last week. There was, understandably, quite a fuss about it. It was the first by a Lab...
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Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by a narrow stretch of water called the Straits of Messina. Plans are intermittently advanced about spanning t...
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It seems a long time ago that we were in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic (OK, it started in March 2020) and a time when we thought we might neve...
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As one might expect, this year having seen the European Championships played in Germany, there has not been a shortage of books about football publish...
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Nobody could deny that Billy Horschel was a worthy winner of the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday. Any guy who finishes the final day birdie-birdie-bird...
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I chose this book for my fiction blog this time around largely because of a serendipitous piece of timing. I started reading it shortly before a trip ...
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If you are familiar with the works of such artists as Salvador Dali and René Magritte, you will be completely familiar with the sense of fantasy that...
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