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Regent’s Perk. August 2012.
Dear Rowley, Every time I put the BBC Olympic coverage on the flatscreen at Bloomsbury Towers it appears that Britain has won another gold medal. I thought we must be up to about thirty by now. Then I realised the … Continue reading
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Gone For A Tsonga. July 2012.
Dear Rowley, In tearing haste, didn’t your eyes go pop when our newspaper (Daily Mail) published this photograph of Tsonga in the buff on the day of his Wimbledon Semi-Final against Andy Murray? I know who I’m supporting. To bag … Continue reading
Follies. January 2011.
Dear Rowley, Don’t let anybody tell you advertising is a waste of money. I was dragging my tired, battered old bones past my local vintner The Grapes of Wrath and there was a chalk board outside reading, ‘January detox? F*** it. … Continue reading
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A Dandy Day in Mayfair. July 2011.
Dear R0wley, Isn’t it lovely having a break from the Today Programme on Radio 4? The work shy pension guzzling BBC staff are on strike. Quite what they have to complain about is beyond me. I switched to Radio 3 … Continue reading
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End Game for Fashion at Royal Ascot March 2011
Dear Rowley, Well love-a-duck, we’re about two weeks away from putting Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style to bed. Speaking of which, I’m lounging on the divan in Bloomsbury Towers in my Ted Sexton blue silk dressing … Continue reading
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