Plan B – Meet us at the Newark & Notts Country Show

By On May 9, 2012 · 2 Comments

This is our first show outing of the season and we were very disappointed that the Chatsworth International Horse Trials were cancelled this weekend, due to recent heavy rain making the course too dangerous. Badminton Horse Trials had also been cancelled, a couple of weeks earlier by flooding. Unfortunately the opportunity [...]

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Social Media – What the…?

By On May 1, 2012 · 4 Comments

I had my first mobile phone in the early 1990s. It was a Motorola ‘Brick’, or more technically a DynaTAC 8000X, which, by today’s standards, was heavy, awkward and frankly not very good, but back then, less than 20 years ago, it was a complete and absolute miracle and revolutionised [...]

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Spring Cleaning

By On April 17, 2012 · 8 Comments

Are we automatically programmed to sort things out in spring? I must say I always seem to get the urge to tidy up my life about this time, sorting out the untidiness with which I was happy to live throughout the winter. I’ve got a couple of projects on my agenda that [...]

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Easter 2012 – Resurrection

By On April 2, 2012 · 16 Comments

Whatever faith, belief or even lack of belief you may espouse, in a few days you will probably be enjoying the Easter holiday. In Western Europe this will be four days with the Friday and Monday bracketing the weekend of Easter Day. For me this has always [...]

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Looking Good while looking after your expensive jacket

By On March 22, 2012 · 8 Comments

When you spend a lot of money on top quality clothing you rightly expect it to last a long time, and be as waterproof five years later as it was when you bought it. Wax jackets, in particular, do need a bit of attention from time to time, and one of the reasons [...]

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Mother’s Day – I know all about the global recession, but Mum needs a treat!

By On March 16, 2012 · 21 Comments

It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday and as I’m enormously gifted in mass communication with the worlds maternal population, I can reveal that SHE is looking for something a bit more durable and exciting than a bunch of droopy daffs from the gas station, or a box of chocs from the benighted Tesco.

I know I’m [...]

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The Uncertainty of Positive Thinking

By On March 14, 2012 · 18 Comments

I seldom have a problem in thinking positively; some might say even to the point of being in denial of actuality. But the alternative is negativity and this, in my view, is such a largely self-fulfilling state as to be not worth contemplating. The absence of hope is in fact [...]

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Mid-February, and I’m ready for spring now.

By On February 22, 2012 · 24 Comments

This damn winter seems to go on forever! I’m one of those blokes who need to have proper seasons which conform to the norm; spritely springs, lush, hot summers, russet autumns and crisp, white winters. But this winter has been neither ‘fish nor fowl’; not cold enough, not frosty enough, [...]

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Internationally speaking

By On February 7, 2012 · 21 Comments

I sometimes forget that Country Attire is an international operation, and although we have many thousands of customers in Great Britain and Ireland, we have many thousands more throughout the world. So the very phrase ‘Country Attire’, which we consider to be so essentially British, may well have differing connotations when [...]

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Food – Are we in danger of losing the plot?

By On January 30, 2012 · 22 Comments

Food is on the agenda this week. I love food, both eating and preparing it, but over recent years, with endless food programmes on the telly (several of which I watch avidly) the ‘foodies’ are getting way too overheated and it rubs off on the restaurants in [...]

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