The leaden skies pevail. We drive to Reading via Argos to return our awful lamp shades. They should label them awful lamps shades in the catalogue so people like myself do not become confused. We are heading for Dunelm Mill in search of decent lamp shades, preferably ones not like those from Argos that effectively [...]
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Grey and overcast. Driving down to Homebase I decide to surprise my wife with a much needed new ironing board. I am shocked how much they cost. Sixty quid? For a bloody ironing board? Then up to Argos to buy new shades for the hallway, although it takes about two nanoseconds to realize that they [...]
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Tonight I have dinner with writer Harry Karis, whose Chateauneuf-du-Pape bible you should own. I wait for him at Swiss Cottage tube station and fortunately he recognizes me as I don’t have a clue what he looks like. Its after about two minutes en route to The Arches that I have to ask the question… [...]
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