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I write drunkenly (but not disruptively!) to you all from a lovely evening in Nantes on the first show of the European tour with the infinite and incredibly effortless talents of Rodrigro y Gabriela…
Read moreNews in this week: Gordon Brown is on holiday. Not content with a week in a Tuscan villa at one of Uncle Silvio’s saucy ‘spezziale’ parties, Brown is facing down the press with the thought that he may spend his down time dry stone walling. I’m not sure how many people really know what that [...]
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Through our exhaustive research, we’ve not been able to find anywhere in the UK that you absolutely must take a plane to or drive to. Even many parts of Europe are now easier to access by train.
Read moreNothing, but nothing, is getting on my wick more than flying. Everything about it sucks: the people, the planes, the airport. The scriptwriters on EastEnders couldn’t cook up a more miserable situation even if they tried to plug a storyline involving Dot Cotton, a sex therapist and Rolly the pub dog. It’s just a haven [...]
Read moreNow here’s an interesting one, what happens to an old oil rig when it runs out of oil and is decommissioned? These hulking great structures that are dotted across the globe will all eventually run out, but, according to Morris Architects, over the next century there’s roughly 4000 that are scheduled to be decommissioned in [...]
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