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Archive for November, 2007

St Pancras and Brussels Midi

Posted in Travelling on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend I escaped to the Netherlands for a flying visit to see my parents. The utter scene-shift, from a rainswept London full of tiredness and adulthood to the sparkling cold sunlight that greeted me on Saturday morning in the Hague, with the breakfast table already laid and my parents reading the paper and making [...]

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songkicked

Posted in Listening, Reading on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’d like to recommend a blog to you: http://songkick.blogspot.com It’s a bit like having your coolest music expert friend on call, any time of the day or night for recommendations. Very nicely written and wow, you get to listen to the recommended tracks for FREE, easy peasy, no annoying downloads or watching ads or getting [...]

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A Coroner’s Court

Posted in Thinking on November 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In the last six weeks, as part of our journalism course, we’ve visited a coroner’s court twice. For a while beforehand, I’d been worrying that the experience would inevitably induce morbid thoughts. In fact, I was surprised by what a strange and unexpectedly graceful beast the coroner’s court is. The particular court that we visited, [...]

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Wahaca. Which now means yum.

Posted in Going Out on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

On Saturday, I had the pleasure of a unique culinary experience. So good was it, that I would wager it won’t stay unique for long, as good ideas in restaurant-land spread fast. But for one day, walking into Wahaca in Chandos Place, I felt a bit like Lucy in the Lion, the Witch and the [...]

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