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    bring me sunshine…

    A quick update to match the quick pitstop back home in Scarborough, where I will be for approximately the next 13 hours before hurtling back towards That London to take up residence until Thursday – yay! I have had a fabulous (if a little tiring) week in the Manx sunshine and didn’t want to leave, sulking miserably all the way…

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    breakfast in Belfast, dinner in Douglas…

    Well, that’s me back from the Beyoncé/Belfast/Dublin dash for a week and an exciting week it’s been, if your idea of excitement is throwing virtually all of your recently hard-earned into some serious DIY planning and preparation with a nifty bit of room-painting, floor selection and wall light shopping as a sideline. Fortunately mine is, at least when the alternative…

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    the belle of belfast city…

    When a pint of special-treat Strongbow Extra Cold Pear Cider in a squishy plastic glass costs £4.80 and a humble (and in my opinion, thin, although very fetching) short sleeved T-shirt £42, you know you’re at a major-level shindig. Bloody hell. But having spent yesterday evening in the joyous company of Beyoncé herself (albeit in the less-than-joyous surroundings of the…