Five quid gets you a perfect Chinese Box in Leicester
Leicester is known for its Indian population, but it also has a Chinese influence.
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Dec
Leicester is known for its Indian population, but it also has a Chinese influence.
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Dec
Yes, I am an old queen. In London in September, I thought about seeing The Play That Goes Wrong, because it sounded different. I chose instead a revival of a 47-year-old comedy – How the Other Half Loves – because Jenny Seagrove was in it. I remembered her from a Barbara Taylor Bradford mini-series in the…
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Dec
I am not a very good gay man. Last year, instead of going to Perth’s Pride March, I stayed home and watched the episode of Game of Thrones that featured Cersei Lannister’s Walk of Atonement. It became my latest obsession. I’ve even persuaded two people to change the ring tones on their phones to ‘Ding-ding-ding….
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Dec
When my friend Caroline and I visited the US Library of Congress in August 2016, there was a special exhibition of the composer Marvin Hamlisch’s awards, which needed a considerable amount of room, largely as a result of three amazing years. At the Oscars in 1974, Cher called him Marvin Hamschmish, then Hamilschmish. But when he won his…
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Dec
You decide, but I think they beat the teddy bears from the US Supreme Court … … and those from the US Library of Congress … This one’s called Sid. I also like this … … though this one from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is still my favourite: The gift shop…
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Dec
Although I am yet to succumb to The Phantom of the Opera, in September I finally saw a play that’s been running continuously on the West End all my life, plus another sixteen and a half years: performance number 26,500, or is it more?… of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. That performance set a new world…
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Nov
In August, my Antarctic friend Caroline and I visited the United States Capitol – the Congress building, or, as Google Maps describes it, the ‘Legendary home of the US legislature’. We could have bought chocolate bars … … or chocolate Congresses. Milk … … dark … … or white.
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Nov
When I was in Munich in late August, they had lesbian and gay traffic lights (sadly now gone). In Trafalgar Square the following week, the lights were lesbian … … and gay … … and transgender … … and even straight! There’s something reassuring about how they all blend into the lions and double-decker busses.
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