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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 3: The Royal Oak
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photo by Ewan-M
The Royal Oak is wonderful because it is such a perfect example of an ordinary pub. It does nothing extraordinary or alarming. It is a Proper Pub, with small rooms and nicely mismatched furniture, and random plates and pictures on t[…]

Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Round 9: the Number 2s.
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After days of stasis, there’s change at last! A good result for Plan B in the last round has reversed the declining fortunes of the Teens, and the Seventies are finally off the bottom of the pile, where they have been languishing since Round Th[…]

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Glastonbury Festival Weather Forecast Forecast 2010*
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Given the demise of glastoweatherwatch and glastofestivalforecast and no obviously googleable replacement by some other person with too much time on their hands, I’ve been having to look myself at the assorted forecasts, to see if we can predic[…]

Pop World Cup 2010: Second Semi Final – Nigeria 2 Cameroon 0
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The big story of this Pop World Cup, it’s been said, has been the exceptional performance of the African teams. Almost half of the quarter finalists, fully half of the semi-finalists, all drawn from Africa. Only one can make it into the final, […]

Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Round 8: the Number 3s.
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Back after an extended break, we’re finally ready to tackle the Top Three – but before we do that, let’s check the cumulative scores so far:
1(1) The Eighties – 29.20 points.
2(2) The Nineties – 27.65 points.
3(3) The Noughties […]

Pop World Cup 2010: First Semi Final – Honduras 1 Germany 2
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Touching distance, now. It’s the semi-finals and, of all the matches in the Pop World Cup, the semi-finals are the most tense. The stakes feel high: win, and you’ll soon savour the feeling of running out in the biggest pop football game o[…]

Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Quarterfinal Results
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With Roger Bozack pulling a sickie, it falls to Eli Sessions to join Peter Baran in the booth for all the quarterfinal results. In the sporting tradition for which the Weekend Update has become justly celebrated, we focus on the sides who lost last w[…]

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Sleightlett & Danegeld (cheesy lovers #82 & #83)
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Sleightlett
A small raw goat’s milk cheese from Somerset, bought from Neals Yard Dairy

This little squat, disc-like little round of cheese is covered in a bloomy grey and white mould. The centre’s bright white. It’s soft and creamy[…]

Pop World Cup: Semi-Finals Preview
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As anticipation begins to build for the football world cup, the pop version approaches its climax. Thirty-two teams arrived in South Africa: only four remain. We’ll be bringing you the semi-finals next week – let’s have a look at th[…]

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Cheesy lover? Cheesy VOMMER, more like: Ilchester Mexicana
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I read about Mexicana over on this here cheese blog. and I thought that;

it looked like congealed vomit
it looked disgusting and
I sorta wanted to try it.

And, lo! I stumbled across it today, and shamefully concealed it at the bottom of my shopping[…]

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