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Gas fires: turn off the pilot light – it may be using more gas than you think
It may seem odd to talk about gas fires in April, but this is the time of year they might come in handy. However, I was shocked when I discovered how expensive it is to keep the pilot light on.
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Two days in London and my physical & mental health improve immensely
A trip to London to meet up with friends, many of whom I had not seen since the late 1970s, ended up being a tonic for mind and soul.
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Vintage France – Avoriaz ski resort and the French Alps in 1978
Tourism Geography for the wealthy. This was a very pleasant location and the whole resort was well designed and laid out, with impressive multi-storey timber buildings everywhere.
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Vintage Switzerland – Geneva: city and modern housing developments in 1978
Geneva and a giant Swiss housing development in the style of Le Corbusier. And a picture of me at the top of Europe!
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UFO/No Sound Is Too Taboo – a superb album you will not find on streaming services
Some of the best albums are not available on streaming services – No Sound Is Too Taboo is one of them and is not only excellent but certainly lives up to its name.
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Imagine a river with gentle sloping banks, boats, gardens and cafés running through the centre of Newton Abbot. It nearly happened.
An 1870 plan covered the river Lemon and ended any opportunity for Newton Abbot to have a river with sloping banks, flower beds and cafés as its central feature.
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