Lunch in Leeds with Stan Graham
I have been meaning to call here for quite some time now and once even got inside but, having arranged to meet someone and with only half an hour to spare, I walked out when I saw the size of the portions! Today I was back to being Billy Nomates so time was not a…
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The other week I was wallowing in self-satisfaction, having just finished a review of the final outlet in Assembly Underground. I was feeling as smug as a trainspotter who’d ticked the last loco off in his Ian Allen guide. It wasn’t to last long though, as a couple of days later I had an email…
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http://www.thaiaroydeeleeds.com/ Many, many moons ago every village, town and city had half-day closing, which meant that shops and other businesses would shut at lunchtime on one day a week. The reason was that, as they only opened from 9.00am until 6.00pm, they could work with one set of staff putting in a five and a…
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It’s funny how a place seems to keep cropping up throughout your life. In the early 1970s I worked as the manager of a betting shop in East Parade and one of my regular punters, who later became a good friend, did the racing commentaries for Extel. In those days it was illegal to have…
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I have travelled all over Europe and North America but have never had the urge to visit the Far East. I am a city boy at heart and love the buzz of places like London, New York and Berlin but I don’t think that I could handle the culture shock of Beijing, Bangkok or even…
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