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V for Victory

It has now been 30 years since the Falklands war started and the various anniversaries surrounding the events that led to the British recapturing the islands are being remembered. While there are many...

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Argyle Road, Teddington

For the last decade I have lived in the leafy London Suburb of Teddington. While Teddington's history dates back to Saxon times most of what is now modern Teddington was developed following the...

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The Daily Mail gets it wrong "shocker"

A fact I enjoy boring my friends with is that Bushy Park in South West London was home to the US Army Air Corps (the precursor to the US Air Force) during the Second World War. The Camp was named Camp...

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The Shard

I perhaps don't pay as much attention to the London skyline as I should. Even though I knew the 72 story, 310 metre tall Shard was being built, it wasn't until this morning that I actually looked up...

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Out damn book!

I'm done with physical media. It's taken me 10 years to realise that a small flat in London and a love of books, music, films and TV don't necessarily make for good bedfellows. After failing to find...

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Where I spent my summer vacation

As places to spend the night go, this isn't too bad. We rafted up with the nine other yachts in our flotila, rowed ashore for dinner in a Greek Taverna, and having returned we spent the night miles...

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Good day at the office

Sometimes, you can tell when people are having a good day at work. While I'm not a fan of what the Olympics have become, and I strongly believe there are many better things the money could have been...

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The Newsroom

It always struck me as rather odd that for the longest time TV was seen as the movie industry's poorer cousin. While films have tended to have larger budgets you typically get about 100 minutes to...

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"It's Sport Jim, but not as we know it"

Attending the Olympic Archery at Lord's, Conor and Robin discover that not all sports are football Despite my love of Rugby I've never thought of myself as much of a sports fans, but it's hard to live...

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Red sky in morning

At 05:45 in the morning — a full two minutes before sunrise— all I saw was the magnificent red sky and the promise of a fantastic day. As I write this post (11am) I have recalled the old adage;   Red...

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Sunset, Kingston Upon Thames

Surrey County Hall Clock Tower, Kingston Upon Thames

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Have you ever listened to.....

Over the last few years I may have moved to consuming media digitally where ever possible but there is still a FM radio in my bathroom that gets used everyday. Sadly for the BBC Radio 4's listening...

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Flash, Brass & Amos

Despite the fact that the length of time I've lived in London can now be measured in decades, last night was the first time I've been to the Royal Albert Hall. The bands I tend to see play venues...

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It's not me, it's you.

In July 2009 I did something I hadn't done in over ten years, I signed a mobile phone contract. The release two years earlier of the iPhone had significantly changed the mobile communications market...

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Royal Garrison Church Of All Saints

I've driven past the Royal Garrison Church Of All Saints in Aldershot on numerous occasions but I never really paid much attention to it until yesterday morning. As I drove along the A325 in the pitch...

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