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..the family when I was a little boy. I think camping’s the present-day manifestation of men’s need to talk to Nature – and perhaps for Nature to talk back. It’s safer in this case to have Nature represent God and I think that most blokes would be comfortable with the communing with Nature metaphor. ‘Going…
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Which, having a reasonably good visual memory, is what I remember most. However this is an ability that serves you absolutely no good at all in a blind tasting. I lack the ability to taste a glass of wine and confidently say that it was a 2002 Domaine Leroy Latricieres-Chambertin Grand Cru just because that…
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..the even more smoke filled proof-reading room. Do I remember him? No, but reporters had normally gone to the pub by the time that we arrived probably straight from the same hotel. Maybe our paths crossed on the way to The Gresham? Somewhat curiously I became a member of the proof-reading room through Hugh Coley…
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..taciturn demeanour would be interpreted today as at least pathologically reserved, if not downright stand-offish. His behaviour even seems a little odd in the context of the era, but perhaps because I missed some of the early series I’ve also missed the rationale for the apparent chip on his shoulder. I wasn’t alive then, despite…
Team building
..area of expertise whose utility in the context if the universe is on a par with the politicians and the clergy. It justifies its existence through largely demeaning activities designed to engender a sense of feigned happiness, whilst disguising that its role is to extract the maximum amount of work with the minimum amount of…