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Continue reading →: One of the world’s classic watches. Yours for £8.
Chances are, as you read this, you’re no more than 3 metres away from a Casio F-91. It’s still the first watch for generations of children, the choice of half the British Army’s regiments (and practically standard issue for military training) and you’ll find them abandoned in office drawers, forgotten…
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Continue reading →: The future’s looking bleak for modern classicsThere’s an old saying ‘take an interest in politics before it takes an interest in you’. And, slowly but with the familiar, grinding, dead-handed certainty, politicians are taking an interest in classic cars. If you own a modern classic car built between 1983 and 2005, they’re very interested indeed in…
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Continue reading →: A late graduation presentI knew I wanted a Submariner and a Lotus Elan by the time I was 10. If you were a kid in the 1970s, you’ll remember the Rothmans ad. You could stand, looking up at the billboard, and see the driver’s Sub just visible under his shirt cuff as he…
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Continue reading →: “Simple, neat and wrong.”After years of falls, road deaths have stopped falling. In fact, in previous years they’ve rising fast enough for the Department for Transport to pre-releasing figures and ministers to start getting their defence in early. UK transport minister Robert Goodwill warned a parliamentary road safety conference last week to prepare for “bad…
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Continue reading →: Let the passengers take the strain.I should have realised that attempting to use a train to travel anywhere more complicated than London was a mistake. We booked tickets to go to Cornwall this weekend. All peachy – only a small second mortgage required. Now we discover (because we checked – not because anyone thought to…
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Continue reading →: Is this the best banger barge you can buy?If you’re a tightwad where cars are concerned, want something a cut above your average Forxhall and want to spend less than £4,000, what do you open your wallet for? How about something that’ll carry five people (and their luggage) in comfort at motorway speeds all day, will do 30mpg (if…
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Continue reading →: When a watch tells more than the timeWatches, perhaps because they are so much more personal than almost any other artefact, have a knack of telling stories that bring the past vividly into the present. Here’s one of them… In the gathering darkness of the evening of September 28th 1944, a group of 12 German Kampfschwimmer (military…
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Continue reading →: The irony – presenting school prizesAs well as the day job and a bit of scribbling about watches, I work with the splendid Speakers for Schools organisation. In February ’17, John Marston, the headteacher at St. Birinus school in Didcot invited me to speak to some of his students. I talked to them about how…
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Continue reading →: A year onOh, look – MMC’s posting pictures of watches again. Yes, it’s a rather nice GW-5000, the one with the proper screwdown back and metal inner case (G-Shock nerds only need apply). But it’s the time on the screen that’s significant, not the watch. Why? On 10 December last year, just…
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Continue reading →: Singing at ChristmasAt this time of year, for me, as the temperature goes down and the decorations go up, there’s always a ‘Carols for Choirs’ shaped gap. As a six year old boy treble and then as a young counter tenor and bass, the weeks from September onwards meant only one…
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