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Signing off on a first-class collection
Do little boys still collect autographs?
Sleeping dogs
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Hum along bravely to old school song
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Hum along bravely to old school song
What was I humming?
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The breathless desire of the mighty auction
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The breathless desire of the mighty auction
I want a new rule for auctions.
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Lash everything down, for today it is windy
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Lash everything down, for today it is windy
Trees will fall today.
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Nosing out my specific memory of 1988
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Nosing out my specific memory of 1988
The year 1988 was a leap year.
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A pleasant surprise at the petrol pump
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A pleasant surprise at the petrol pump
Surprise is good.
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Alarming reaction raises question of motives
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Alarming reaction raises question of motives
We were asleep in a rented holiday apartment.
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Hunting, not gathering, by the Heathcote
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Hunting, not gathering, by the Heathcote
Mike's retirement is classical.
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It’s watching, and can print its own guns
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It’s watching, and can print its own guns
I don't understand AI.
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The lure of freedom, the game of chase
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The lure of freedom, the game of chase
She was crouching behind a low wall at the top of some steps, ready to jump out on whoever came up them.
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Neither meat nor drink, but a failed stew
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Neither meat nor drink, but a failed stew
Everything means something.
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Hail the great splinter makers, wringing excitement from risk
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Hail the great splinter makers, wringing excitement from risk
Here in Lyttelton we have a fine new Coastguard building.
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The tutorial torment of the late Mr Smith
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The tutorial torment of the late Mr Smith
Increasingly I think of Mr Smith.
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Cup-winning kitchen gadget gallops in
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Cup-winning kitchen gadget gallops in
Well, there I was some months ago minding my own business when what should I hear but the clip clop of little hooves and the rustle of wrapping paper, and a gift horse cantered into my life.
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Let us down this day with our daily bread
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Let us down this day with our daily bread
Disappointment is the stuff of life.
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Bonkers’ incredible, inevitable stardom
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Bonkers’ incredible, inevitable stardom
With the death of heavy metal frontman and reality TV star Joseph "Bonkers" Bennett, entertainment has lost one of its brightest lights.
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A rare thing: honesty from a pro athlete
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A rare thing: honesty from a pro athlete
On the eve of the Open golf championship, the favourite, Scottie Scheffler, gave a press conference.
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On being dragged into the 21st century
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On being dragged into the 21st century
He is young, fresh-faced, tall, entrepreneurial and at ease with technology. I’ve christened him My Antithesis. And I’ve hired him.
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Of trade, empires and pygmy hippos
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Of trade, empires and pygmy hippos
Did you know that Cyprus once had pygmy hippos?
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Hungry for answers in a Budapest hotel
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Hungry for answers in a Budapest hotel
Budapest. I last came here in the 1980s when Hungary was still ostensibly communist, part of the Warsaw Pact and under the grim governing eye of the Russians.