Everything in one place
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. So said Ward McAllister.
Tune in or turn off as soccer hell beckons
A fever is approaching the edge of Europe. Hovering on the outskirts, it is gathering momentum ready to make a full-on assault on 8 June
Grateful 32
I was in Ireland last weekend for a First Communion. My nephew’s. The style was something to behold. Young girls dressed up to the nines,
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. So said Robert Louis Stevenson
Creativity and insipid turnips
I saw something most peculiar today on my way back from the post office. A man on a bike, cycling along Üllői út, wearing a
Bedroom: Booze and babes
I finally succumbed. After much hmmming and hawing I gave in. I saw this original Marcus Goldson painting at an exhibition last week and it
Put your inner magpie to good use
I’ve been trying for a while now to inviegle the masses (you) to collect your soaps and shampoos as you wander the globe staying in
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Mention Six degrees of separation and many of us will think Kevin Bacon and his claim that he has worked with everyone in Hollywood. The
He loves me, he loves me not
There was a time when I spent hours amusing myself by plucking petals from daisies or blowing the seeds on a clock flower in an
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Punctuation, public speaking, and the use of the English language are three topics that will get me on my soap box any day of the
