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    it’s the most wonderful time of the year…

    It’s the end of the week when the weather inevitably resumed normality, and I count myself lucky to only have got soaked twice given that it’s been a busy one. Fingers crossed that it picks up a bit before the usual Bank Holiday deluge, when I will be safely out of the way in the Empire (as was) for the…

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    extra time!

    …is what I now have in Victoria next week; after not very much procrastinating and agonising I’ll be staying on all day Friday and Saturday morning prior to moving over to a far less salubrious (but a lot cheaper) crash pad for Saturday night – yay! This is partly because of a couple of folk for whom I’m always (within…

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    from the sea to the smoke (and not before time…)

    After a full six weeks of peace and tranquillity, or as near as it ever gets for the gainfully self employed, it’s almost time to get packed and set off for Angel at the weekend – yay! The weather forecast has been checked and proved inconclusive, therefore the timeless British tradition of just bringing everything potentially useful (sunglasses, flipflops, Factor…