Tag: Chorleywood
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Prosper UK and David Gauke: Good luck, I guess
One might regard their support of Prosper UK with scepticism: is it driven by principle or opportunism?
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The settling train
But his son, filled with ambition in his teenage years, felt that, pleasant though his father’s life no doubt was, there was surely more to life than this?
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Striders and Strollers: pub and walk route list
A resource for Striders and Strollers to help plan pub walks of 5 or 8-12 miles – none of them too far from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.
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Let Me Take You Down…
About March 1970, I heard a languid, dreamy song one Sunday morning on Kenny Everett’s radio show.
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Take a Trip to No Dragon Wood
…but you don’t have to worry in the least ‘bout incineration by a mythical beast
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The Copper Bowl
He soon came back with a Swiss 50 franc note, with about a quarter missing. “You’re welcome to this if you can use it.’
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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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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 Laboratory in Chestnut Avenue
I learned, perhaps, that the smartest business plan will fail if it upsets customers.
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David Gauke: My Part in Not Preventing His Downfall
Before I had reached the end of the driveway the door opened and a man in his seventies shouted after me “He’s a traitor!” It seemed that not all voters had embraced Gauke’s idea of a more thoughtful and respectful style of politics. I was reluctant to engage: I was…
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run places
in my run places I’m lost in effort and pass through in seconds but later picture myself there and yearn to be back and when I cannot visit them I ache to be there
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Gaukey and Me
At this point the waiter managed to spill a decent quantity of coffee into my lap. Fortunately it wasn’t scalding, but I still wonder whether this was in response to a prearranged signal.
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