Milo U.

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Protected: Working girl

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 3:35 pm
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A touch of frost

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 2:34 pm
We’re now in autumn and around the corner is the bleak midwinter that comes with living in northern Europe. The temperature has dropped considerably over the past week or so. It’s now in s...
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Because I'm worth it

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 3:55 pm
I may have gained 14 lbs in the past year. But I no longer have any spots. A good thing for someone in their early 30s. They had bugged me on and off for two decades. My skin is better than it’...
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Priscilla

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:41 pm
Great evening at the theatre seeing Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Really good fun. One of the best things I’ve seen at the theatre in a long time. I love the film too, which probably helps. ...
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Silver cities rise

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 3:59 pm
I’ve been at my company a year. The anniversary was the end of last week. I wrote a long post at the weekend. Which I didn’t post. Not sure why. It was too long to be honest. And I was on ...
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It's coming: Spooks Series 8

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 4:29 am
The brand new 8th series premiers this Wednesday at 9pm GMT on BBC1. It’s fair to say that Spooks is one of my most favourite TV series and certainly one of the very best things that the BBC air...
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They danced all night

Milo U. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 3:42 pm
... in 1913 at age of 26, and soon rose to be arbitrator of modernist English poetry with her two brothers, collectively known as “the Sitwells.” While her love was poetry, she wrote sev...
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The lone piper

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 4:08 pm
A lone piper was playing at the station this evening, on my way home. I find bagpipe music haunting. I’m guessing it’s in connection with Remembrance Sunday which is imminent. We wear popp...
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Open leg rocker

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 3:20 pm
Pilates can be up and down. Some weeks I find it really hard and I long for the end. Other times I get a kick out of it. Tonight wasn’t too bad. I seemed a bit more supple than usual and had m...
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Sobriety test

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 7:38 am
Sobriety test, Los Angeles, 1950s Funny how they used to do such things. I had a work party on Friday night and got v.tipsy. Started on Peroni beer, then moved to ‘gin & lemonade’ (heret...
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Belgravia

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 5:13 pm
An enjoyable evening with family at my favourite wine bar in Belgravia. Met them at the place I frequented when I was saying hello to Sven – a very old haunt of mine. I’m not averse to ca...
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The Boat That Rocked

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 7:12 am
It’s a period comedy set on a pirate radio ship floating in the North Sea in the 1960s. I enjoy period pieces harking back to the latter part of the 21st century – and so to that end, I en...
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ENFP

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 6:06 am
So we’ve recently been taken through personality profiling at work, to get us working better in our respective teams. I should say at the outset that if you’re unfamiliar with Myers Brigg...
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Protected: Wordless in you

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 4:32 pm
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Take on me, take me on

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 5:34 pm
25 years after forming, A-Ha announced that they were splitting today. I remain transfixed by 80s music. Such a formative decade for me. Music such as theirs brings it all back. Then: Now: Posted ...
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Vignettes – 14/10/09

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 5:31 pm
The usual journey into work. Train and tube. 50 or so minutes on a good day (longer than you might expect from zone 3, but that’s London for you). On the tube, the man on my left is transfixed ...
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Fashionista

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 pm
(all images via dannyroberts) Love this guy’s art – is great! And he’s only 23. He specializes in fashion related art. His prints also available to buy. Posted in the arts Tagged:...
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Call me Mr Vain

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 2:56 pm
I’ve gained 14 lbs in the last year. I need to lose it. Not yet sure how. Re-joining a gym would be a start… Watch this space. Posted in health, music Tagged: culture beat, diet, mr vain...
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State of Play

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 9:25 am
I watched State of Play last night (the 2009 Hollywood movie, rather than the made-for-television BBC miniseries of 2003). It was good and is worth watching. I am a big fan of the original BBC versio...
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Holiday food

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 7:16 am
Enjoyed good food in France on holiday last month, unsurprisingly. The supermarkets are great, as are the markets. And oh how I love the boulangeries! It was like a self-catering holiday which was g...
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Borough Market

Milo U. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 1:43 pm
An enjoyable morning and lunchtime with a close friend (ex-colleague) at Borough Market. If – like me – you are covetous of very fresh, very high quality, seasonal and regional food ̵...
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Protected: Notes on a scandal

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 2:38 pm
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Phoenix rising

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 5:54 am
It was a modern miracle, the scene we thought we would never see. The Labour party rose, not just to applaud Peter Mandelson but to cheer him, to whoop at him, to adore him. Tony Blair famously said t...
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Protected: Gross misconduct

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 5:43 pm
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Angel of the East

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 3:00 pm
Igors Vihrovs became the feel-good story of the 2000 Olympic floor finals. With some of the most unique tumbling of the competition, he stuck his tricky tucked double-double dismount, and earned the f...
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Things you may not know

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 3:25 am
In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have ‘the rule of thumb’ ——̵...
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Protected: Napoleon

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 4:06 pm
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Oui! Non!

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 5:42 pm
This sign was on the front door of the cafe we went to in Collioure. Made me chuckle. Très français! Posted in on my travels, photography Tagged: france, french, sign
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Only in France…

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 4:39 pm
… would you find a middle aged straight man on a public beach… wearing a thong. The person on his left is female (and presumably his wife). This Frenchman had a cigar which I thought quit...
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Letting in the light

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 4:34 pm
When we arrived at the house in France it was all shuttered up. The smell was slightly musty. We threw open the shutters throughout the house and let in the cool mountain breeze. At night, I would clo...
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En France

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 5:48 pm
Got back from a week in the south of France this evening. Enjoyed it. Good break away. Not looking forward to work tomorrow… Lots of photos and we did a lot of things. Driving in the mountains...
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Wit & Wisdom

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 3:00 pm
The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. - Margaret Thatcher, quoted in The Guardian This post is one I made earlier; I’m currently in the south...
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Tubular bells

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 3:30 pm
I took this in Prague last year. I like their underground system. It has a kind of old fashioned sci-fi feel to it. This post is one I made earlier. I’m currently residing in the south of Franc...
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Wit & Wisdom

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2009, 9:28 am
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough. - Australian comedian Adam Hills, quoted on the BBC Posted in ...
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Vignettes 10/09/09

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 3:46 pm
The man on the opposite platform whom I see every morning in the rush hour. I look at him. He appears to look at me. He’s in shorts and a t-shirt but I’ve seen him in a suit before. And y...
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Protected: Laurel & Hardy

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 8:51 am
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Meeting up with Sven

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 3:52 pm
This evening I met up with Sven. I’ve known Sven pushing 2 years via my blog (we first started blogging one another 2 blogs ago in my case and 1 blog ago in his case). An enjoyable evening. Sve...
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Germania

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 5:12 pm
So I was in Germany today. For work. Got up at silly-o’-clock, also known as 5am. Car picked me up at 5.45am and I was whisked to Gatwick airport. I had a Bill Murray Lost in Translation moment...
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JJ & Faye

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 6, 2009, 4:19 am
vancouver.  august 2009.  yashica mat 124g w/ fuji provia 100, cross-processed. jj and faye.  check out BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO! CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT: VIMEO (small) OR YOUTUBE (big). p.s. the musi...
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Hope there's someone

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 4:13 am
Was watching some obscure music programme last night, on BBC4, about bands signed to the Rough Trade label. There were same great bands – The Smiths, Libertines, The Strokes, Pulp – among ...
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The remains of the day

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 4:05 pm
As far as I’m concerned, Bank Holiday Monday earlier this week marked the end of summer. The day commenced both cloudy and drab – but it finally turned into a beautiful late summer’s...
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Midnight's children

Milo U. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 3:43 pm
I’ve stopped the mid-week drinking. I’ve also stopped the pigging out on snack food in the evening. Now, I’m down to a miso soup and a banana of an evening. Realising I was 10-12 lbs...
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Fooling around

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 7:18 am
“Edward VIII of England (Then prince of Wales) with his cousin Lord v Louis Mountbatten (assassinated by the IRA in late 1970s ). Early 1920s.” (via rockabillyvixen) Posted in photograp...
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Lang Lang at the RAH

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 5:25 pm
I was at the Royal Albert Hall this evening seeing Prom 56: Staatskapelle Dresden. The highlight – and the reason it sold out rather early on – was that Lang Lang – Chinese prodigy a...
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Dinner at Sophie's

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 4:15 pm
A busy day at work. I was minded to have another day sans alcohol. Alas, it wasn’t to be. Coerced by my two closest male friends at work – we went for something of a boys’ night out...
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Unpublished: Man about town

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 4:15 am
This blog entry was written on 21 December 2008 and for whatever reason, was never published. Picture: Aquascutum, London (autumn/winter collection 2008) Strangely, I miss wearing a suit to work. Fo...
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Unpublished

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 4:09 am
A fair bit of what I write never gets published. I don’t know why. Perhaps and quite probably because the catharsis is in the writing – not in the publishing and being read / commented. I...
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Amazon Vine

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 4:08 am
Last month I was invited on to the Amazon Vine programme. If you’re not sure what it is (I certainly had no clue what it was)… http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/vine/help It’s basically a...
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Protected: Alpha and Omega

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 12:48 pm
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I've been robbed

Milo U. posted an article on - Aug 20, 2009, 3:51 pm
My bag was stolen from a London pub this evening. I was an idiot. It was hanging from the back of a chair that was at the end of a table. The bag is black, inconspicuous, easy to swipe without anyone...
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