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Pssst! I'm a secret mocktail drinker
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 23rd February 2012
WE struck lucky while visiting Dubai. A friend of my daughter is a secret shopper/drinker/diner. I did not go into the finer points of her job description but it transpires the Dubai equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce likes to have updates on their business and service.
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Not a trip for those who suffer from vertigo
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 16th February 2012
IT HAS taken me some years to feel relatively relaxed in an aeroplane. Gone are the days when I needed to watch four films in succession in order to traverse the Atlantic and keep my mind off the fact we are sitting in a glorified cigar tube, heavier than air.
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Time to form Friends of the Sun Printers/Engraving Clock Tower?
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 9th February 2012
IT IS nice to note that one of the last remnants of “the splendour that was Cassiobury”, namely Little Cassiobury, close to the much enlarged former Watford Technical College, appears to have a future.
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Along the Texas Panhandle, teenage memories rekindled
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 2nd February 2012
IT is popularly known as The Day The Music Died: February 3 1959 and I can remember it as if it were yesterday. As a teenager, I felt we had lost something unique with the passing of Buddy Holly, by far he most innovative of all the first generation rockers.
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