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Friday, 29 July 2011

Barbecoa brings proper American BBQ to London

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I've read that smell is actually the most powerful sense when it comes to triggering memories. It was a claim I could well believe last ...
Monday, 25 July 2011

The cook-on-demand birthday brings experimentation and very fine wine home

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Back in my agency days, when I had a small team who all worked in the same place, I instituted a bake-on-demand policy for birthdays. You g...
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Sunday, 17 July 2011

Potter and dancing dragons sweep me away to other worlds, and argue for the series novel

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It is fashionable amongst culturally literate types to bemoan the rise of the sequel and the series in popular entertainment. There's n...
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Saturday, 9 July 2011

Zuma is undisputed winner in London's Japanese restaurant stakes

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I have not been a good Weight Watcher this year. Stress, travel, eating away from home a lot ... all are enemies of the low fat, portion-co...
Thursday, 30 June 2011

Why Apple will rule the world (And I'm just fine with that)

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Linked by my malfunctioning iPhone, but poles apart in customer service, are the divergent tales of Tesco and Apple. Last week I wrote of th...
Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Longborough opera returns with a luxury picnic and an odd but enjoyable "Cosi"

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By the time I left university, I believed I had mastered the art of the tailgate picnic. The coordinated line up of cars mustered early eno...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

DON'T SHOP AT TESCO! A tale of poor customer service and lessons learned about heartless discounters

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A vocal minority of Brits see grocery and superstore owner Tesco as the anti-Christ of retail, a heartless leviathan who advocates animal ab...
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