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VENICE
The thought of taking a Ryanair Flight always creates mixed feelings. They have a reputation after all. However, sitting down and thinking about it they are an efficient organisation. Marilyn...
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Bloody Politics And The World of The Gutter
Good old Dave!!!!!!!!!! Bloody Politics And The World of The GutterHere in Britain for months and really years now; no, let me start again, for ever, if the truth be honestly admitted to, we have...
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THE EPSOM DERBY
Grandstands at Epsom.The Epsom Derby is the most famous horse race in the world and is run on Epsom Downs just outside the town of Epsom. It was founded in1779 by the 12th Earl of Derby who gave his...
View ArticleIN THE MOOD FOR THE 70'S!!! Oh yes!!!!!!!
Close your eyes and let this little lot do it for you!!!!!Feel the sound!!!!!!!!Ah that's better. I can get on with the day now.
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TWININGS ON THE STRAND on Monday!
On Monday, Marilyn my wife, and I were in Twinings on The Strand and just happened to be having a cup of tea with Mary Simonsen, her husband Paul and daughter Kate.Kate and Paul in Twinings supping a...
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If only we ALL had critics like these.
A glass of wine in hand, reading the Guardian Newspaper on a Friday evening, Bob Marley on the sound system telling me, "don't worry about a thing, because every little thing goin to be alright.." and...
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Cheyne Walk Chelsea. A Very Very Special London Street.
Cheyne Walk seen from The Thames in the 1890'sIn the late 1950’s , probably about 1958 when I was six years old, an aged great aunt called Kate,came to visit my grandmother and my great grandmother in...
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THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE
So it’s sixty years since the Queen came to the throne after her father’s death in 1952, while she was on safari in Kenya with the Duke of Edinburgh. She became Queen on February 6th 1952, the day her...
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THE OLYMPIC FLAME
There are four days left until the Olympics start in London.Over the last few weeks the Olympic flame has been carried around the United Kingdom. Everybody in these isles lives within a few miles of...
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A VISIT TO THE LAKES
William Wordsworth within his beloved lakes, contemplating.The LakesA smooth drive up the M6,my Nissan Serena purred like a contented kitten. The new exhaust was working well. The recently replaced...
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GLUED TO THE BOX FOR THE NEXT MONTH,I PRESUME!!!!!
The above title, for those not attuned to an English way of speaking means ,"Are you going to be watching our Olympics on your televisions? Interminably!! Ha! Ha! Do you get it?Here is a set of...
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LONDON OLYMPICS 2012
COME ON THE UK !!!COME ON THE WORLD!!!!A little suggestion for you all.WATCH the opening ceremony. It will BLOW YOUR MINDS. Ha! ha! You will just know this is England, this IS Britain!!!!!Maybe you...
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The Olympic Road Race
I walked into Kingston upon Thames yesterday with Marilyn and Abi. We couldn't drive in because all the roads were closed to allow the Olympic Cycling Road race to pass through . Here are some...
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MY CITY (London)
Bait ul Futah Mosque in Mordern South LondonWhen my youngest daughter , Abigail, started in year 1 at The Sacred Heart Junior School, Burlington Road, at the age of five, she had only been there a...
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Haworth and the Bronte thing.
The Moors just outside of Haworth.“ I struck straight into the heath; I held on to a hollow I saw deeply furrowing the brown moorside; I wade knee deep in it’s dark growth; I turned with it’s...
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18th century landscaped gardens
The Chinese Bridge at Painshill Park.Jessie Ware is a new singer emerging from South London. This is her first hit single. What is appropriate for all you Jane Austen fans is that this video was...
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WE READERS ARE KILLING THE NOVEL
Howard JacobsonHoward Jacobson is one of our most successful recent novelists and author of The Finkler Question which won The Man Booker Prize in 2010. He is a journalist, broadcaster and novelist...
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SPASTICUS AUTISTICUS
“I’m Spasticus, I’m SpasticusI’m Spastiicus AutisticusI’m Spasticus, I’m SpasticusI’m Spasticus AutisticusI’m Spasticus, I’m Spasticus…”Ian Dury of The Blockheads If Ian Dury had still been...
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WEST MEON IN HAMPSHIRE
"I will not cease from Mental Fight,Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:Till we have built Jerusalem,In England’s green & pleasant Land."The final verse of, “And did those feet in Ancient Time,”...
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Jarvis Cocker discusses , “The John Lennon Letters.”
In the Saturday Guardian yesterday, (13thOctober), Jarvis Cocker reviewed the new tome about one of the Beatles, John Lennon. Hunter Davies, who wrote the first Beatles biography, has collated many of...
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