Category: Journal
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Drop Valentine’s Day. Celebrate Lupercalia
As the saccharine celebrations of Valentine’s Day fade, with its bounty of chocolates, roses and gushing Instagram posts, this morning’s dawn brought on another festival which celebrates love in a very different way. Falling on 15 February, Lupercalia has its origins in Ancient Rome. As with all such things, many of the finer details depend…
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The List: 2025
Looking back on the year that was As every New Year approaches, I like to write a list looking back on the year before. It’s essentially my own, personalised Wrapped, for everything from trips and cultural touchstones, to moments that made me smile. So here is this year’s offering, in no particular order.
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Cocktails, foraging & folktales in Tower Hamlets
The MindInNature team take us on an evening tour of the magical, gothic splendour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Pary, complete with cocktails and fireside stories.
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Don’t read my blog, read theirs
Over many years, and many abortive attempts to run a blog, I have learned one thing very clearly: an awful lot of writing is theft. This is my second iteration of Millennial Gent, and the fourth blog I have tried to run since I first started writing one about 20 years ago. In that time,…
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Mary Earps, Nike & how to miss an open goal
To call Nike’s decision to release Mary Earp’s jersey a “u-turn” does not do justice to the very public clusterf*ck the brand has created
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Fill your life: Be passionate about what you enjoy
The world today so often defines itself by what it does not like. It is easier, for example, to find 100 people online who can agree that they hate James Blunt, or the Star Wars prequels, than it is to find people who will openly share your passion for foraging for mushrooms or the latest…
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