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    one more sleep…

    And a final sign off (for a few days at least) since I’m now home, in no small part to thank those who have emailed to state their approval of my response to Rhoda Grant published last Saturday but also to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and especially those who made last week lots of fun! A fine time…

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    it’s beginning to look a lot like…

    Well after a couple of weeks which for a variety of reasons could only politely be described as fraught, virtually everything that needs doing is finally done and I’m preparing for this years’ Big Trip – yay! Presents have been bought/knitted and wrapped, cards are posted and Tesco.com have been issued with my Christmas demands (potatoes, mostly). Most importantly of…

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    ahoy! ahoy!

    And normal service has (almost) been resumed after a couple of weeks of charging around the country, including more pick and mix and zombies in Leeds (too many if you ask me; four films out of five and I’d already seen ‘groundbreaking’ [meh] found-footage anthology VHS which was making up the numbers) charity coat collecting in London and Peri Peri…