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Chris
20 September 2022

O2 Arena Parking Tips

(Updated regularly)


This post lists what I’ve found out about parking at the Greenwich, London O2 Arena (the old Millennium Dome), and my experience of event parking there. I hope it’s useful, and please use the comments to add anything …


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Cambridge Folk Festival 2022
Chris
2 August 2022

Cambridge Folk Festival 2022 review

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

It’s easy to start by saying “another year, another Cambridge Folk Festival”, but this wasn’t “just another one”; it was the one that followed the two abandoned years.

Continuity is important for a festival reliant …


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Chris
31 May 2022

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Picture Quiz

I was asked to put together an easy picture quiz for a local organisation to print out and use at a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee event. Here it is, in case you want to use it yourself. It features people who’ve …


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Chris
25 May 2022

Seven reasons why 25 May is such a Glorious Day

  1. It’s the birthday of loads of people I’m proud to share a birthday with. They include Paul Weller, Frank Oz, Mike Myers, Sir Ian McKellen, Julian Clary, Cillian Murphy, Sir Jonny Wilkinson, Sugar Minott, Alastair Campbell, Igor Sikorsky, Richard Dimbleby
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Chris
2 May 2022

Ipswich Town and League One review 2021/22

Everyone will have seen the ‘league table since Christmas’ and we’re all quite aware that for Town it was a season of two halves. But I thought I’d look into the numbers a bit more deeply across the division.

For …


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Chris
1 February 2022

Investing Update No.1: January 2022

What a horrible start to the year. Overall –8.1%, the worst month since I started keeping detailed monthly records a couple of years ago. Just the commodity funds showing any signs of life, and even dependables like Halma turning in …


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Chris
12 December 2021

2021 “Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz UK

A popular item for after our Christmas dinner! People always ask for a copy, so here it is (below, click for printable PDF). All you need to do is to identify the faces who have been in the news in …


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Chris
10 July 2021

Mike McDonnell – Personal Trainer, Braintree, Essex

A recommendation here for Mike (Michael) McDonnell, a personal trainer based in Braintree but working all over Essex and even in London.…


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Chris
4 February 2021

Alex Rand: Student Investor

Just thought I’d add my son’s natty new investment blog to the list of sites I recommend here. Brave of him to put his investments out in the open like this – I tend to keep mine to myself! I …


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Chris
7 December 2020

Decent Christmas Songs on a Spotify playlist

What’s not to like about this? A crowdsourced playlist of decent Christmas songs on Spotify that won’t make half of the room groan when they start playing. Thanks to all who contributed. Featuring (at the time of uploading) Alison Krauss …


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Chris
14 October 2020

How to find something you remember seeing in your own Twitter timeline

“When you’re trying to find tweets about a specific topic on your timeline, it can be a nightmare sorting through all the tweets from friends, celebrities, news sources, and everyone else you follow on Twitter. While you can search Twitter …


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Chris
3 May 2020

Best UK Number Ones Ever

I hate it when people post on Twitter: “Here’s my list of the best…, what’s yours?”, because I simply can’t resist.

****GREATEST NO. 1 POLL****

As you all know, the only good music is CHART MUSIC with No.1 hit singles

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Chris
29 December 2019

My favourite 20 films of the decade 2010 to 2019

A roundup of the decade appears to be compulsory for anyone who’s so much as commented on a film in the last few years, so here’s my contribution! This is not a list of the ‘best’ films I’ve seen – …


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Chris
18 December 2019

“Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz UK

December 2019

Always popular at our Christmas party, this one, and people always ask for a copy, so here it is (below, click for printable PDF). All you need to do is to identify the faces who have been in …


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Chris
20 August 2019

How to get a 100%, A* EPQ mark – some tips

My son did his Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in 2018, at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and it was really interesting to watch. For something worth just half an A-level (and in reality when it comes to university applications, …


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Chris
27 May 2019

Beds, Scientific Instruments and more: a few new websites

A few websites I feel obliged to recommend to you, mainly because I had a hand in making them.…


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Chris
31 December 2018

Music and Movies of the Year 2018

Getting better! My last few years’ totals of new films viewed have been 46, 52, 61 and now 73. Beating that is going to be quite the challenge in 2019.…


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Chris
31 December 2018

My most shared Tweets of all time

I was nerdy enough to get on Twitter really early on (August 2007), as @CherryHintonBlu. Quite a few even more curious people had been there before me, as I was only user ID number 8,015,922. Here’s my first Tweet (Twitter …


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Chris
18 December 2018

“Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz UK

Please Note: this year’s (2019) “Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz will be published on Monday 23 December. Sorry it’s late, but so is our Christmas party this year. If you like the look of last year’s quiz …


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Chris
13 November 2018

Top 10 Songs by: The Smiths

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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Chris
1 November 2018

Top 10 Songs by: Yes

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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Chris
7 October 2018

Top 10 Songs by: Steely Dan

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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Chris
25 September 2018

Top 10 Songs by: The Style Council

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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Chris
20 September 2018

Top 10 Songs by: Prefab Sprout

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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Chris
19 September 2018

Top 10 Songs by: Genesis

  • Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have
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