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Blog 146. Egg Nog Anyone? Or Cheesecake Perhaps?

Whatever happened to shirt tails?  I was pondering on that sartorial deficiency the other day as I unbuckled my belt and adjusted my trousers for the third time that day in order to tuck in my shirt.  Shirts just aren’t what they were.  I can remember when shirt tails stretched halfway down your thighs, providing…

Blog 145. Janet and John Go To Paris

It is a curious thing, but if you were to ask the average Englishman or Englishwoman which country was England’s oldest ally, he or she – if well educated – would probably say, correctly, “Portugal” (I refer the honourable reader to the Treaty of Windsor of 1386).  Ask the same English person which country is…


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