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My Short but Glorious Rugby Career
…had I stayed the course, Dad would have loved to give me that shirt.
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Palin and Holmes: looking back to greatness
So why should their attitudes to continued celebrity be so different?
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The Excellent Trap
…there had been no career plan, just trial and error, opportunistic – sometimes desperate – leaps from rock to rock.
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Cliff Richard and The Shadows, “The Final Reunion” – O2 Arena, 26 September 2009
We understand that you’ll never be cool. But we love you, Cliff.
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Odontophobia
…I put this down to a generation of dentists who seemed to come from a military background, recruited in the days when physical strength was required for the job.
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The bubble car picture
And now, perhaps fifty years later, I was looking once more upon the bubble-car picture.
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Lockdown Diary: part 2
Every case of Coronavirus is a game of Russian roulette – and the older you are, the more bullets there are in the cylinder.
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Lockdown Diary: part 1
This is going to be a long haul. Debbie has a rare personality disorder which results in her sometimes finding me extremely annoying.
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The Laboratory in Chestnut Avenue
I learned, perhaps, that the smartest business plan will fail if it upsets customers.
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The Secret Genius of Charles III
Who really wrote the Beatles’ songs? (Or Shakespeare’s plays, come to that.)
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Taid
Taid seems to have preferred the schoolroom to the farm, and perhaps the effort he made to learn English as a child led his part of the family away from the land and into more comfortable (if less beautiful) workplaces.
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