I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I really do worry about the right-wing idealogues in the Coalition which seem intent on changing our health service and our education systems for the worse and irretrievably so. There’s a good article (click here) in the Observer about it…
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another Indian: Zara in Great Shelford; 6 Aug 11
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in restaurantsIt was a promising start to Saturday: if you can regard a somewhat surreal encounter with the Italian language as promising.
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Cambridge Marketing College, annual dinner: 14 Jul 11
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in events3 years ago when I started this blog one of my first posts (click here) was about attending the Cambridge Marketing College’s annual dinner. The dinner itself ends with the annual lecture and there have been some impressive guest lecturers…
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Mozart’s Bistro, Newmarket Races; 17 Jun11
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Remember wedding anniversary: tick. Arrange suitable celebratory event: tick; we were going to see Jools Holland at a Newmarket races music night. Ensure good weather: oh dear!
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Villa Ratingen, Ratingen near Dusseldorf; 16 May 11
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I don’t visit Germany very often these days so I enjoyed a quick trip over last week to visit InterPack, the big triennial packaging show in Dusseldorf. Hotels at the times of big shows double their prices and then double…
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St Pancras Grand; 11 Mar 11
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The train ticketing systems in the UK defy logic but fortunately if you can find your way around them there are some super deals to be made. Last Friday I needed to begin my day in Catalonia and to end…
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Brownlow Arms, Hough-on-the-Hill; 20 Feb 11
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in restaurantsNot a lot of people know very much about Lincolnshire. It’s flat, it’s got a bit of a war-time history as a base for many bombing raids and it’s got a number of sea-side resorts which are known more for…
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2010 in review
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in lifeThe stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
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why do we make such a meal of coffee?
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in lifeNobody would argue that it’s much easier to get a decent cup of coffee today in the UK as compared with say 10 years ago. There’s a choice of coffee shops on the high street and most half way decent…
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Swynford Hotel; 26 Dec 10
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in restaurantsI remember someone once telling me that he’d inherited two characteristics from his father, viz premature balding and being a supporter of Manchester City, and that there was nothing he could do to change them. This was some years ago when being…
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