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Olives
This week I discovered that Marks and Spencer sell grilled olives. Oh my goodness, they are a Taste Sensation! To quote the late, great and sorely missed Kenny Everett, “Darlings, you’ll simply die of pleasure!”. If you like olives, treat yourself 😎
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Pantoland
Let’s all sing along to ‘Pantoland’. This holiday season we were lucky enough to go to two pantomimes. Oh no you didn’t! Oh yes we did! First up was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Ambassadors New Victoria theatre in Woking. Starring Rob Rinder (him off the telly) and Lesley Joseph (Birds of…
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Just add Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a prolific composer of “light music”, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. His most famous tunes are probably “The Dam Busters March” (written for the film “The Dam Busters“) and “By The Sleepy Lagoon“, which was used as the theme music for the “Desert Island Discs” programme on BBC…
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Big Martyn
Big Martyn is my best friend. He died two years ago today. I knew Martyn through the Compulink Information Exchange (cix.co.uk), which was one of the first social networks, before that was a phrase we really used. I leapt into the Modern Age in 1990 by joining CIX. I had a modem attached to my…
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Being Fabulous
Today I celebrated my thirty-nine-and-a-halfth birthday with my Main Man Martyn and my friends Andrew, Shaun and Richard. Martyn and me popped into the Tate Modern in London to get some lunch and see the Hopper exhibition. Of course, we were running slightly later than anticipated, so we settled for lunch (excellent nosh, excellent views)…
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Dr Jan Starts A Blog
Blimey! How did I manage to avoid this for so long? This is the initial post `from the keyboard of Dr Jan’. Please check out my original web pages at drjan.org.