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The Bread of Life – after The Final Lap

September 15, 2014
by George Emsden
beer, but I digress, CAMRA, lager, pete brown, the george southwark, the pretty things
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And the Beer Hatch, match and despatch as the saying goes for the three times when most people go to church or perhaps when families get together these days. With Cathy’s family over from Zambia for the funeral there is the chance to catch up. Turns out one nephew has his inheri
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Going, Going, Gong! (Yoga Diaries #06)

August 25, 2014
by George Emsden
astrology, astronomy, but I digress, chambré, clyde tombaugh, minor planet, pluto, yoga
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Gong Yoga? Thank you Evening  Standard for introducing Gong Yoga in April last year. As if Hatha yoga, Bikram/hot yoga, Vinyasa yoga, Kundalini yoga, Ashtanga/power yoga (a hard one), Iyengar yoga and even prenatal yoga are not enough, here comes another one – Gong Yoga. There a
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Of Lice and Men

August 04, 2014
by George Emsden
blacksmith, but I digress, first world war, hygiene, lice, logistics, shoeing smith, trenches, WW1
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Did your Grandparents tell you War Stories? Unless you have been asleep for a while, you will know that today is the centenary of the UK declaring war on Germany in what became the First World War. This declaration followed Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination 28th June in S
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The Ken Dodd Pension Show

December 19, 2012
by George Emsden
adolf hitler, bauhaus movement, but I digress, Dara O Briain, HMRC, Inland revenue, Ken Dodd, luftwaffe, retirement age, tax avoidance, tax evasion, Wolverhampton Civic Centre
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How Tickled I am As a writer, one tends to read a lot. And in a small way to help to keep my local library open, much of this is by reserving books from there with only the occasional book off Amazon or Ebay. Haringey has a pretty good service but sometimes like London Buses, you wait
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Everything Changes

February 10, 2012
by George Emsden
alzheimers, baptism, but I digress, celebration of life, christening, civil ceremonies, civil partnerships, funeral, marriage, naming ceremonies, registrars, religious fundamentalists
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Hatch, Match and Dispatch ..the three occasions when most people go to church. Since 5th December 2005 with the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 couples of the same gender can form a legally binding partnership although couples of different genders cannot. Marriages are no longer restricte
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James Bond? Just a piece of nonsense I dreamed up…

June 03, 2010
by George Emsden
anthony blunt, but I digress, Cairncross, Cold war, death of stalin, donald maclean, garbo, guy burgess, ian fleming, james bond, john cairncross, kim philby, rosenblum, Stalin, tax arbitrage
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What’s the opposite of writers’ block? Should I stick to pensions, finance etc or why not write about spies? For a second I reach for my calculator but with the whole blogosphere available, go for both. Slightly surprised that I have not had any panicky messages from Highe
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