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	<title>Christopher Stocks</title>
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		<title>Great Ormond Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ended up living in Bloomsbury by one of those chains of circumstance that happen all too rarely, but here I am, and there can be few more alluring neighbourhoods of London in which to be. Central enough to be able to walk almost everywhere, yet just far enough off the tourist track to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double entendre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sycomore is one of the most extraordinary perfumes that I know. OK, its name looks like a misspelling of sycamore, a tree that – in Britain at least – no right-minded person would name a fragrance after. Sycamores, after all, are as common as muck, breed like rabbits and are often looked down on by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/double-entendre</link>
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		<title>This septic isle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The island has been losing its hold on me. After eight years here, the rubbish, the dog shit, the plastic windows, the shoddy building, the wheelie bins, the general greyness and bleakness have started getting me down. I still love our house, which as a friend said last night must be one of the cutest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/this-septic-isle</link>
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		<title>Sauvage cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What have Dior done to Eau Sauvage Extrême? I started buying it when it was pretty much what it said on the bottle – a slightly more intense and much longer-lasting version of the original Eau Sauvage, with the original&#8217;s knockout sherbert lemon and jasmine combination cranked up several extra degrees. Not something you&#8217;d want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back into the swim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first swim of the year this weekend, though admittedly it was in a friend&#8217;s pool rather than the sea, which friends who have been in all agree is (and I quote) &#8220;fucking freezing&#8221;. But then returned to London yesterday and back to my regular running this morning, which I&#8217;ve started to enjoy at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/back-into-the-swim</link>
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		<title>Picture goes here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing about perfume is all very well, but who wants to read a blog that has no pictures? Maybe I&#8217;m just a lazy git – correction: I am a lazy git – but it&#8217;s so hard to find good images to illustrate my perfume postings that it puts me off (or at least gives me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diggity dig&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting chucked off our old allotment by the horrible little builder who&#8217;d bought the land was a bit of a blow, but our new plot has several advantages, apart from getting away from him: it&#8217;s flat, for starters, the soil is more than two inches deep, and it&#8217;s not full of paving-slab-sized stones. It&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/diggity-dig</link>
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		<title>Forgotten Fruits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain has an extraordinarily rich heritage of traditional varieties of fruit and vegetables, but how many of us know the fascinating and sometimes eccentric stories behind them? Who was the Mr Cox, for example, who gave his name to Cox’s Orange Pippin, now the most popular apple in the world? Which conference were Conference pears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/forgotten-fruits</link>
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		<title>What a stink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing unusual about hating airports, but it only dawned on me last week at Gatwick how much I hate airport duty free shops too. I always feel I should have a look at the hundreds of perfumes on offer in case I stumble across something wonderful and new, but while it&#8217;s useful, I guess, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christopherstocks.com/what-a-stink</link>
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		<title>No island man no more?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weird, busy, whirlwind, confusing, exhilharating few weeks. My birthday, off to Paris, couldn&#8217;t afford it but what the hell and a friend let us stay in his smart-but-tiny apartment on the swish Avenue Foch: freezing cold and icy pavements and lethal heaps of dog shit everywhere (just like Portland!) but wonderful too. A couple of [...]]]></description>
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