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Written by Winifred Blackmore
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London in winter is a city of boots. As I trudge up the steps from the Tube each morning, I reckon that 90 percent of the women around me are wearing them: sturdy boots and kinky boots, patent boots and furry boots.
And let’s not forget the ubiquitous Uggs. I had some myself until a friend, married to an Australian, told me that our obsession with Uggs is a source of much mirth Down Under (where the fur-lined footwear is manufactured). It seems they’re really house s... |
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Written by Winifred Blackmore
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With less than 11 months to go till the start of the London Games, Olympics Fever is well and truly upon us. OK, so maybe at this stage it’s more of a low-grade temperature, but things are definitely heating up.
Already, the Olympics has nipped to the head of the list of No Go discussions at the dinner table. Mere mention of the ticket-selection process (more of this later) or the controversial logo (ditto) is enough to spark the kind of utensil-downing argum... |
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Written by Winifred Blackmore
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My husband and I went to Amsterdam recently, and while we were there, two things dawned on me. One: that it’s a beautiful city, and we should have visited it sooner. And two: that a lot of posh food is actually rubbish.
Amsterdam’s top restaurants—the Zagat picks—seem to specialise in the kind of overblown cuisine that I thought, nay hoped, had gone out of fashion 10 years ago: Hideously incompatible raw ingredients (sardines and coconut, anyone?), which when... |
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Written by Winifred Blackmore
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I know that globalization is a dirty word, because my husband told me so when I announced that I planned to write my column about how the world had, in the 20 years since I'd left home, become a much smaller place. "You're talking about globalization," he said, and I nodded, so as not to seem like a total idiot. "It's possibly not the best time to be singing the praises of globalization"-that word again!-"given the mess we're in at the moment."
I think he was talking a... |
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