I’ve been discovering new rambling locations but fear in the process, I have inadvertently exposed myself to a hotbed of al fresco romping. The first new location, we shall call it ‘The Common’, looks very pretty. It’s got a pond; it’s got water lilies’; it’s got benches donated by dead people. It’s also got...
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On this date, two years ago I got this job, much to my surprise and delight. In this uncertain time, I am going to take this realisation as a good omen, and a sign that things are going to be okay for me, two years on, in the here and now. I can’t jinx or...
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Concocted by Serge Gainsbourg, the most exalted potentate of lust, this bizarre fantasy detailing a (the?) middle aged lothario’s affair with a teenager oozes priapic zeal, laced with a sense of humour that can only be described as goblinesque. Unusually for a concept album from this era the music has dated astonishingly well; produced...
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I’ve been to two other ‘proper’ weddings in my life. One was a grandish church affair where the Bride walked down the aisle to Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’, which for some reason or other repelled me from that song for a long time. And the other was an elaborately over-the-top half an hour in a...
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I have brilliant friends. I have friends who know exactly where they are going in life, and I have friends who are wonderfully accomplished even if they don’t have it all planned out yet. I have young, gorgeous friends who are making mistakes before my eyes, but are making the very same mistakes I...
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