Archive | October, 2010
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Shakespeare And The Art Of Making Coffee

by nickglaves on 27. Oct, 2010 in Life

I hate TV advertising, on the whole, because it is intrusive. Fine, I recognise it is an integral part of the commercial broadcaster’s business model and from that point of view a necessary evil, but unless it contributes value to my life I generally switch the sound off.
Of course if it’s Uma Thurman trying to [...]

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Autumn

Thoughts On Walking in the Early Morning in Autumn With The Dog

by nickglaves on 21. Oct, 2010 in Life

And so I emerge with Pavlovian rigidity to the sound of a bell, weary and fumbling like a punch-drunk boxer, from a slumber that has been anticipating this moment. It is long before dawn. Shuffling, stooped against the cold air and peering out from the smallest apertures my face will allow, I grope through the darkness [...]

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Alan Sugar

Almost Worth Prison

by nickglaves on 14. Oct, 2010 in Current news and opinion

Morally speaking, I’m not averse to the prospect of killing a fellow human being. Thankfully not one of the many situations which would elicit such an action have yet come to pass, but the potential is there; I feel it, lurking restlessly in the muddied backwaters of my psyche. Repressed, like some corrosive secret, is all [...]

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Peter O Toole

Contemplations On The Pocket Square

by nickglaves on 06. Oct, 2010 in Style

Hardy Amies made a good point when he wrote: “A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them.”
It is something, as gentlemen, we should all strive to live by but nowhere does it fall down more than in the sartorial [...]

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