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“Show me your shoes, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
My Grandma, Edith, was a stylish, intelligent lady who had a wonderful saying – “show me your shoes, and I’ll tell you who you are.” Never a truer word was spoken. All the impact, and awe inspiring...
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A vested interest.
Heading out of the Victoria Quarter this month, I was confronted with something that for me, cast a cloud over this sun-soaked Great British Summer. Lads, stripped to the waist, swigging from bottles,...
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Cordially yours.
As this wonderful Summer runs its course, preparations for Autumn & Winter are underfoot at Casa Michelsberg. This weekend, a fresh batch of logs was delivered, and during a family shopping trip to...
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Cheers for Chinos
Having just returned from a wonderful break in Runswick Bay on the East coast, I have to admit I’d gone rather feral. Whilst most of my customers assume I relax in velvet smoking jacket, embroidered...
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Threads of isolation
As the cold winds of isolation blow over Corona County, for those newly working at home, these are dangerous times. My heart goes out to those poor displaced souls, tucked away in the eves with a...
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Black Tuesday
Meghan, Harry and Oprah – like driving past a road accident, I tried not to look, but couldn’t help it. Like the squatting thighs of a constipated grey hound, I shuddered, squirmed, and trembled in...
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The Road to Redemption
Last night, I shed a tear. After nine series and one hundred and thirty four episodes, my favourite TV series, ‘Suits’, came to an end. Since March 2020, I’ve lived and breathed the antics of the...
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La Bella Figura is back!
When asked by ‘Beyond’ Magazine’s Editor, Mark Bowness, to pass comment on the stylistic path we might tread in 2022, I started my research over breakfast, with a quick shufti on Google and came up...
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Polished professionals
Every man has his breaking point. Like Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down,’ a recent article in The Telegraph brought me perilously close to darkening the doors of McDonald’s “Kiwi shoe polish to...
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Autunno e Inverno
My sun-dappled dome of a forehead bears testament to what has been a wonderful Summer. Highlights for me were post-surfing pints of cider in Cornwall and bezzing around the coves of Corfu in a...
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