Author: Chris Mads
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Just a little blog post
Sometimes in life you just need to try something a bit new. Like this. New address, new look…same old Millennial Gent. Still no plan, still just a corner of nonsense on the internet. Welcome back.
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Looking forward. Looking back
I am not big on New Year’s Resolutions. Most of the time they are abandoned faster than they are written and they come with so much self-inflicted pressure that we often end up not making changes that we would otherwise have achieved, just because they supposedly began on 1 January. I read something once which,…
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2022: The List
At the end of the year, I like to go back through photos, notebooks, diaries and the like to remember the highlights of the past 12 months – both big and small. In some cases these moments are intensely personal, sometimes they are big, bold moments that I shared with many others, either directly or…
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Football, mountains and souks: A postcard from Morocco
Lots of people were thinking about Morocco last night as the Atlas Lions continued – and ended – their heroic run in the World Cup with a semi-final defeat to France. While lots of people probably became honorary Morocco fans for the night, S and I watched the match in the restaurant of a hotel…
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Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever – Marvel Phase 4 gets its groove back
The second Black Panther film has arrived. In the wake of the sad loss of lead actor Chadwick Boseman, the history-making franchise dusts itself off and moves forward – and it does so with great style and grace. Before I go on, I should preface this with two admissions. Firstly, there will be spoilers. We…
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Back on stage in The Wedding Singer
It’s been a busy summer. I’m writing this from my sofa in the wake of an excellent week back on stage for the first time in years. I have written before about the fact that amdram has been a big part of my life since I was quite young. In fact it’s how I first…
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Coffee shop musings
It has been far too long since I have written on here. The last blog I posted was about Megxit and in the modern world of 24-hour rolling news nobody cares about that anymore except Piers Morgan. It has been a busy old start to this month; I’ve moved house, turned 33 and finally updated…
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Sneak Peek: Mark Millar’s Prodigy 2
I don’t talk about comics much on this blog, but they are one of my favourite ways to escape and unwind. When S and I head up to London, Forbidden Planet is among the sites we often stop off at for a browse and to find something new. A while back, I picked up the…
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Chimney Fire Coffee is good for your morning and your soul
As coffee brands for the sustainably-minded, South East-based, millennial in search of a great brew go, there can be few better than Chimney Fire Coffee. The Dorking-based roastery was set up in 2016 by Dan Webber, fresh back from several years working on coffee and cocoa traceability in Ghana. Today, the company sources and roasts…
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All hail the (short) king
Welcome to Short King Spring! I should preface what is to come by saying that I can take no credit for the advent of either the phrase or the event I am talking about – obviously. The term “short king” was coined in 2019 by Jaboukie Young-White, who hailed so-called “short kings” as “the enemy…
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