This morning we load the kids in the car and drive up to see a new house in the Queen Elizabeth housing estate in north Guildford. No, it is not the most convenient area, but alas, I am not a RBS banker who has just pocketed a multi-zero bonus. I actually quite like the 3-bedroom [...]
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I take Lily/Hello Kitty to school, write in the morning and then head into London for a lunch/meeting for the forthcoming International Wine Challenge, where for the third year running I am acting as a Panel Chairman/dictator. The venue is “Providores”, Peter Gordon’s superb restaurant in Marylebone, his fusion cuisine as daring and sublime as [...]
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I have a discrete word about register duty in the ear of Lily’s teacher, whilst my daughter unwraps herself from her Hello Kitty scarf, Hello Kitty bobble hat and Hello Kitty boots. I dread the day when she comes home with a Hello Kitty tattoo. I spend the entire day strapped to the Mac, writing [...]
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Hoorah. Today is the annual S.I.T.T. tasting at Vinopolis, London’s most boring museum unless you happen to be one of the original shareholders, who must have made an absolute killing on its real estate value. It is a recent addition to the calendar, whereby a large number of independent merchants gather to show their wares, [...]
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