Good riddance to US car companies (Nov08)
I sat next to a chap from Citicorp Bank for Sunday lunch at a pub [...]
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Quantumly awful (Nov08)
I’m not planning see a James Bond film again unless it’s radically different from Quantum [...]
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Turning on the heat… (Nov08)
My eldest son sent me a text ‘demanding’ that I put on the heating [...]
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Eat Dorset Food Fair (Oct08)
Another sunny weekend for the Eat Dorset Food Fair. Set in the magnificent park at [...]
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Printer Horrors (Oct08)
I’ve been having problems with my printer. Actually, it’s been annoying me for quite some [...]
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Recycling Dreamland (Oct08)
Chris Dow at Closed Loop recycling in Dagenham was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. He describes [...]
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Autumn pleasures… (Sept08)
Picking apples and blackberries in the beautiful autumn sun has only been surpassed listening to [...]
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Yeovil to Naples by train (Aug08)
Up to Waterloo and across to St Pancras, we caught the Eurostar to Paris. But [...]
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Family friendly films – a rant (Aug08)
This is a rant! Why make a Batman movie that’s not suitable for children – [...]
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Summer produce (Jul08)
The weekend wasn’t glorious – certainly not the weather anyway. But I’ve been really enjoying [...]
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NT – Energy efficient light bulbs (Jun08)
ABOUT TIME TOO – NATIONAL TRUST ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS I was a tenant of [...]
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A Trip to Waste Tip (Jun08)
Dimmer landfill site near Castle Cary in Somerset is unusual. It has a rather beautiful [...]
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Washing lines in Dubrovnik (Jun08)
Where bombs and missiles fell in the early 1990s, I stood looking at washing lines [...]
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Marjorie Scardino in place of Anita Roddick – women in business (Apr08)
I was originally asked to speak at the Merrill Lynch ‘Shaping the Future’ event last [...]
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Easter Holidays (Apr08)
Snow fights and snow men are unusual activities for an Easter holidays. We’ve managed [...]
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Changing lightbulbs (Feb08)
First a confession. I have spotlights in both my kitchen and living room, which are [...]
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