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    home is the hunter!

    And whilst it’s looking like a busy week (not least as the DIY and decorating continues apace) I have finally arrived back at HQ for a sensible interval after what seems like interminable weeks of go away-come back-do laundry-repack-go away again and weeks it is, if we count from my setting off for New York via Dublin on February 4th…

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    sunshine on leith (and cork!)

    And goodbye to the brrr-ing since Spring has very much sprung, not least in Scotland where the balmy weather took me quite by surprise – other surprises included an exceptionally comfortable new style bed at the budget-tastic Glasgow Ibis, a complete lack of rain after the Thursday night (always important when sitting in a cinema auditorium) and the price of…

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    brrr glasgow (nearly)…

    It’s not actually that cold, and I’m not quite in Glasgow – yet – but two weeks on from an all-too brief pit stop back at Scarborough HQ (which was mostly spent either doing laundry or asleep) a couple of fun-packed but exhausting days in London (not unlike New York, but wetter) plus a slightly shorter than planned interlude in…