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by Christopher Proudlove©Español | Deutsche | Français | Italiano | Português <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisp/73547434/” title=” What do you get when you walk under a friendly cow?A pat on the head. What’s a dentist’s favourite musical instrument?A tuba toothpaste. Jokes as bad as these – and worse – will spill out over dining tables across the land [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s It’s 1947, you’re travelling First Class aboard the Cunard White Star flagship RMS Queen Elizabeth and dinner is served. For starters, it’s oysters on the half shell, followed by clear turtle soup, turbot for the fish course and timable of ham. The roast sirloin [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s We tend not to think about it but given time, antiques collectors will look back on the first few decades of the 21st Century and marvel at how life was then, probably in much the same way that we do today about the 1920s [...]

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by Christopher Proudlove�Espa�ol | Deutsche | Fran�ais | Italiano | Portugu�s Learning to tell the time in the Morris household was not easy. It was apparently all Grandpa William’s fault. He claimed it was named after him – he said it was called a grandfather clock, so he believed he was right � but he [...]

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