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Christmas days
The tendency for Christmas over the years has been for it to spread out, much like my waistline. When I was younger—even ten years or so ago—I saw Christmas as a landmark day. There were celebrations either side, of course: … Continue reading
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Postscraps
A few days ago, we went to a Spanish café/restaurant that we’ve been to several times before, and I ordered the same goat’s cheese salad I ordered before. I checked the menu—again—to make sure they hadn’t sneaked any meat into … Continue reading
Posted in body, commerce, consumption, diary, experience, food, location, person, society, spain, tourism
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“Sir, you ordered coffee with the housemaid”
The Spanish have an obsession with ham. It’s a bit like the internet’s own tiresome obsession with bacon, but less frequently acknowledged and therefore harder to fight against. It certainly makes being a vegetarian difficult: a quondam housemate, a Spanish … Continue reading
It is good to be sociable sometimes, and never better than at Christmas
Living in a smallish town makes one quite sensitive to the social aspects of what might otherwise be viewed as purely commercial changes in its atmosphere. Around Christmas-time, the change in the quantity of people in Witney on a market … Continue reading
Posted in art, body, children, christmas_2013, cliques, commerce, consumption, diary, experience, family, food, friends, local_independents, music, person, seasons, society, time
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Hrududidn’t
Our car Hrududu failed to start again this morning, as the battery had drained itself of charge and its connections, held on by jubilee clips for years, have started to come loose again, apparently owing to differential shrinkage of metals … Continue reading
Posted in cars, consumption, diary, driver_privilege, establishment, experience, far_away, hrududu, location, parties, society, transport
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Richard Paterson’s intentional flamboyance is irresistible
I’m planning a whisky tasting evening at home this weekend, and I stumbled across a video of Richard Paterson, White & Mackay bigwig and whisky opinion-former. Look at him: look at his tie; look at his matching kerchief. Look at … Continue reading
Posted in body, cliques, commerce, consumption, cultural, diary, drink, enmity, entertainment, experience, friends, industry, made_our_own_fun, marketing, parties, person, society
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Top Dog always gets the treats he wants
I went to a conference a few years ago where they let people pick a “dietary option” beforehand. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that 50% of people responded, 20% of whom (or 10% of the attendees) said they were vegetarian. … Continue reading
Posted in body, consumption, discomfort, experience, food, intuition, mind, organisations, past, people, person, privilege, psychology, society, time, understanding
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Kindling that most marvellous liquor
I’ve been boycotting Amazon for its tax avoidance for ages now. Rather, I ought to say, boycotting it on and off. This year, in order to best deploy my resources on having a decent pre-Christmas with my parents (especially following … Continue reading
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Lighter later, darker later
I wrote a longer version of this originally, but managed to bore myself. I don’t think Lighter Later will ever be as successful as the (slightly contradictory) predictions imply. It will also be overall bad news for my own personal … Continue reading
Posted in belief, climate, cliques, commerce, consumption, cotswolds, cycles, employees, enmity, environment, industry, location, organisations, people, politics, pragmatism, privilege, research, responsibility, roads, safety, seasons, society, time, transport, understanding
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People who agonized over these decisions also agonized over
While we’re on the subject of commerce, it’s worth revising a couple of my longstanding resolutions with regards to online purchases. If nothing else, exposing my hypocrisy at least makes me feel less like I’m being wilfully misleading and more … Continue reading
Posted in art, commerce, computers, consumption, cycles, efficiency, local_independents, love, loyalty, manufacture, music, research, retailers, society, speculative_tech, technology, transport, understanding
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