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Art Thief

June 19, 2010

My old rather wonderful housemate, Phoebe Gilbert, sent me this joke that I thought was fairly amusing. In a moment of boredom I converted it into a video using Microsofts inbuilt Movie Maker when I was playing with it a few months. I thought I would share it with the rather limited viewers of my blog! Hope [...]

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Charles Tyrwhitt Revisited

April 12, 2010

Im such a big fan of my big brothers company and their products, and no I genuinely don’t think I am biassed. Thousands of Feefo customer feedback agrees with me! I know one of my readers prefers one of the competitors, more fool him! No more cheeky comments, Guy!!! Anyway I used to work quite [...]

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Perhaps I should get this tattoo!

April 7, 2010

Im going so bald that a friend sent me this photo suggesting I get it tattooed onto my head. I’m not a big fan of tattoos, but this one sure looks fun! What do you think!?

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Joke of the Day The 11th Husband

December 3, 2009

Well almost although I doubt it will be a regular feature: A young man married a beautiful woman who had previously divorced 10 husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband to “Please be gentle; I’m still a Virgin”. “What?” said the puzzled groom. “How can that be if you’ve been married ten [...]

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Chicha Morada

November 17, 2009

The Peruvian health drink. I absolutely love Chicha Morada. Supposedly it has great health benefits too, as studies have shown that purple corn helps regulate blood pressure and prevent colon cancer, probably because Purple corn contains one of the most active antioxidant substances in the vegetable world! Before moving to Peru I was addicted to [...]

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Remembrance Sunday

November 3, 2009

Remembrance Sunday is just a few days away in England. It is a day that I have always regarded as being particularly important. I was talking on Twitter with someone called Scott Addington who runs Military Research. He specialises in helping families discover what their ancestors have done in various conflicts through the ages. He [...]

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Charles Tyrwhitt

October 15, 2009

I have wanted to write something about Charles Tyrwhitt for a while, not just because I think the shirts are the best in the world and would not be seen dead in anything other than a Tywhitt shirt when trying to look smart but because it is run by one of my brothers, Nicholas Charles [...]

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My Grandfather

September 30, 2009

Yesterday I was doing a search for Vashon Media online and ended up on the keypublishing.co.uk forum reading about aviation history. From there I went on to find this photograph of my grandfather in google books. Vashon Media is my webdesign company, that I named afer him and another ancestor, Admiral James Vashon. The image [...]

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Social Oomph Review

September 25, 2009

I promised to do a Social Oomph review after using the free trial. So here it is. Despite the silly name I can safely say it is something I would recommend. If you are already using it do let me know your thoughts and if this article inspires you to give it a try then [...]

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Ceviche

September 24, 2009

This is a copy of a recipe I included on my Donde Peru website. I have included a copy here because I think it is one of my favorite recipes and should be shown on my personal site too! Ceviche is without a doubt one of my favorite things about Peru. Remarkably easy to make [...]

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