Have you met my … washing machine ?

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I read a couple of articles recently on how to repair broken household goods and just how bloody difficult it can be. I myself have a love/hate relationship with my washing machine and yet strangely the bond between us is … Continue reading

What links football, Subbuteo and Felicity Kendall ?

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Well, if you want to know the answer you’ll have to pop along to Campo Retro‘s excellent website and read my blog post for them, which you can do by clicking here. While you’re there, check out their glorious range … Continue reading

Time and tears …

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I read a fascinating interview in The Guardian this week with one June Brown, better known to the world as Eastenders’ Dot Cotton (or Branning if you can still stomach watching what long ago became the most excruciating show known … Continue reading

Fancy a coffee ?

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Je suis Européen. Ich bin Europäer. Soy Europea. I am European. How about you ? I bet you bloody are, even if you don’t know it. This morning, I read an article in a national broadsheet about the Premier League. … Continue reading

I want to believe.

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I think I’ve worked it out: we really are descended from aliens after all. But that’s not the most extraordinary thing I discovered this week, believe it or not. It’s that religion plays a massive role in the cover-up. Churches … Continue reading

A gentleman’s guide to … Hats

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Up until a couple of generations ago, most men wore hats. They wore them to work. They wore them to play. They wore them even when on holiday. I’m not trying to write a song here, even though the last … Continue reading

Il pleut des cordes …

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It’s not. Actually raining, I mean. But sometimes I wish it was. A couple of months ago I was walking across Southampton Common in the morning and I was roughly halfway between where I’d left my car and my destination … Continue reading

We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town …

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Fashion. It’s great, isn’t it ? What goes around, comes around, and this season it appears the nineties are back. Really ? So … um … baggy jeans and glowsticks ahoy, I take it ? Well, apparently not … it’s … Continue reading

I feel guilty …

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Is it wrong to not watch the news ? As a grown-up, I’m plagued by guilt for a variety of reasons: I’m white, I’m English, I’m middle class, I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I was well … Continue reading

Too much information ?

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I stumbled across an article on trans-fats the other day written by a “food detective” who was arguing the case for eggs and carbs and all that good stuff as actually being healthy and perfectly natural. He explained that certain … Continue reading