Just returned from a week in the Virgin Islands with work. Pretty busy, but the view from the hotel window wasn’t bad:

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Michael Jackson

I am sad to hear that Michael Jackson has passed away, on 30 August 2007, aged 65. I never met him, knowing him only from his early 1990s series for Channel 4, “The Beer Hunter”. I have fond memories of those television programmes. Jackson educated me, with avuncular enthusiasm evoking a gentler age of TV production, about the world of beers beyond the typical English pub. The Beer Hunter inspired me to sample the wide variety of beers from around the world, from which I have derived much pleasure over the past decade or so. Michael Jackson, you will be missed, and I regret that I never had the opportunity to buy you a pint.

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I was irritated when this article reminded me what a total patronising git AA Gill appears to be in his column. I remember why I do not usually read AA Gill.

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