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Monthly Archives: December 2009
A farewell to 2009 and to this decade
Wow. It really doesn’t seem so very long ago that I was writing my 2008 retrospective. The older you get, the faster the years go by. Scary. I don’t really have the motivation to do a detailed analysis of this … Continue reading
Le Bateleur
Shopping in London’s West End yesterday afternoon prior to meeting friends for dinner was horrendous. Sooooooooooo many people. A quite ridiculous number. And the weather was awful. Very cold with drizzly rain. Queues at the tills in some of the … Continue reading
Posted in food & drink, friends, london, shopping
Tagged aftershave, anthology, d&g, dolce & gabbana, fragrance, le bateleur, perfume
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Man boobs, muffin tops and bingo wings
Yes, it’s that time. A new year – heck, a new decade even – is just around the corner. Such times can act as harbingers for change in a person’s life. I’m ready for change, on so many counts. On … Continue reading
Posted in health
Tagged bingo wings, diet, gym, man boobs, muffin top, obesity, resolutions, weight loss
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An Englishman in New York (ITV1)
The made-for-television movie ‘An Englishman in New York’ premièred this evening on ITV1 at 9pm. Very, very good indeed. Probably the best quality drama I’ve seen this Christmas (there has been a lot of dross on, unsurprisingly). John Hurt in … Continue reading
Posted in movies & films, objet d'art, television
Tagged drama, gay, itv, john hurt, new york, quentin crisp, review
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Things I want to buy in the January sales
A 32″ widescreen LCD TV for the living room. Done, bought yesterday from Currys. V happy with it. Clothes, mainly for work. Chunky knitwear perhaps (I say this every year). Jaeger have some decent looking things and I love their … Continue reading
Posted in shopping
Tagged aftershave, blu-ray, dyson, flatscreen tv, gf1, jaeger, january sales, lumix, panasonic, prada, siberian goose down
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Post-Christmas reflections
This video just seems apt somehow. Jump for joy and then breathe a sigh of relief. It’s over for another year. In my case three fairly high pressured days over Christmas. It goes something like this: Christmas Eve Drive from … Continue reading
