It was September of our Novi year and we had only just begun our time at Tonbridge. We might only have been there a few days when this happened. I seem to recall I was walking past the chapel, crunching along the drive down towards the Quad, in a large group of other people, and […]

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My dad’s youngest brother by eleven years was working in NY in the early 80’s. We were living in Lisbon at that time and I seem to remember my dad being sent to NY on some business related affair for about five days. My uncle Guy, hot blooded and in his mid twenties, had been […]

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It was the summer of 1994 and Philippe had secured for us both, via one of his uncles who worked in marketing and promo, a cushy job distributing lighters and T shirts and other bits of merchandizing amongst client bars all over the Algarve of a select number of beer and cider brands. The job […]

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