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Tony Pelmet on Where to Put it All…
I’m with the Daughter in Uniqlo. There’s all these people in here hurling themselves at the Heattech thermals, buying up armfuls of it. And of course within a week we’ll probably be out of this weather. And then it’ll be ‘where am I going to put all of this? I’d better go up to Ikea…
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Poodle Faker
Motoring slowly along a superstore B road on the outskirts of a one-time cattle town called Newton Abbot, I see an elderly priest walking a narrow pavement. He’s stencilish, almost jagged, like a Richard Hambleton Shadowman painting. Clad in black, wearing gold-framed spectacles, carrying a black brass-clasped attaché case. His denomination was unclear, but his…
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Aqualand
Several weeks ago, Clive the Poodle Faker and I had spent over two hours on the phone. We’d been talking about the Marine Spa Ballroom, a magnificent Victorian building that included a swimming pool, spa treatments and restaurants, built when Torquay was the Queen of the English Riviera. Clive told me he could have been…
Gerry King 