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Happy 2023!

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 Happy New Year readers! It's that time again where we celebrate the start to a brand new year after a night of boozing in town and singing Auld Lang Syne or however one prefers to celebrate. It's also the time when we reflect on what's happened and what we'd been through over the previous year. In addition, it's the time to plan some New Year's Resolutions. This might be one of the lengthiest posts I've ever published, so grab yourselves a cup of tea or something as we go through the highs and lows of 2022. So, where to begin with how 2022 went? Well I feel that one should start with the negatives and then the positives as it's always best to end on a positive note. So here goes. Firstly, I'll start with those who passed on over the last year. These include; June Brown Bernard Cribbins Angela Lansbury Jet Black Robbie Coltrane Lynda Baron Meat Loaf Christine McVie Ashvin Luximon Terry Hall Matt Zimmerman Vivienne Westwood Maxi Jazz Raymond Briggs Mi...

The Northern London(?)

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 Hello, once again. There were other topics I intended to discuss for this month. However, since I've recently returned from a short vacation in what I would roughly say is my second favourite location in England behind Skegness, those topics will be brought up another time. Note that I'm not limiting it down to a maximum of one post per month. The minimum of one post per month is the intended target. Leeds is currently the most populated city in Yorkshire which is the largest English county. But when I was a kid, and before I conducted general research, I had always assumed that it was York. Maybe it's because the county is known as York-Shire, like my hometown, Leicester being in Leicester-Shire and Derby being in Derby-shire. It was also because York was the most talked about Yorkshire-based town during my youth, which comes to no surprise, due to the many historical aspects associated with the location.  As a matter of fact, this was the second time I visited York. The ...