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    fifteen more sleeps…

    …and we’re finally into the countdown; the advent calendar is up and running, I have eaten one haggis, a box of mint Matchmakers and watched Nightmare Before Christmas online once. Elf is next on the list having been stolen from Channel 4’s regular schedule by the dark forces at Sky (boooo) but as with so many things pacing is key,…

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    nirvana (plan b)…

    Well after all that (predictably pre-drafted on Thursday evening and auto-published in the name of common sense) it turned out that sadly the R&R, for the first time in five years or so, was not forthcoming on this occasion thanks in no small part to Champney’s executive decision somewhere along the line to replace whatever was responsible for providing their…

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    nirvana…

    And hello from the warm and peaceful world of slothville (and for somebody who made such a palaver about winding up the travelling and sticking to my new close-to-home base instead, I seem to be posting an awful lot from hundreds of miles from it) or more specifically, curled up on a big pink sofa at Champney’s waiting for it…