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The Oriental Express

To there and back again and down the dining hole.

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Nick Boyd
Aug 09, 2025
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Yesterday, somewhere between Hungerford at 09:46 and Lambourn at 06:46 this morning, I seem to have misplaced quite a large chunk of what is, laughingly called by the GP, my brain.

A quiet and very jolly annual lunch at the Oriental; (No madam, that is NOT the Mandarin, it is a perfectly nice and rather beautiful club, which serves a decent Curry,

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