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In those pre SnorBan days Claudette and I used to enjoy traveling around the continent. We’d go where our heart, or bellies, would take us, discover out-of-the-way villages, great cleaving gorges, huge silvery lakes and stunning mountain roads that would take us up to the very heavens and from where...
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Some years age my father went to Harrogate. As he was returning to Leeds by train he went to the station.
At the end of the platform he saw a bench so he went over and sat down on it. There was another sitting there who seemed familiar so my farther...
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
I was a film extra for around 10 years. This led to some interesting stories. Here's one.
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The sun, a slip of a thing, was just cresting the hills over the eastern sky, as I drove down the mist filled winding country lane. It lead towards a large, green, glorious valley...
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The sailing boats massed along the quay at Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda, were of the very highest quality. Considering the wealth of there owners this was no surprise.
They had just moored up having raced in the Round the Island race, the island of Sardinia.
I walked slowly passed them, with Brent...
Monday, August 16th, 2010
My maternal grandmother, Nadia, was, when a teenager, a circus dancer of great renown and beauty. This is her story as she told it to her husband, my grandfather, Henry Lister ‘Hoppy’ Hopkin.
“They came from Odessa, on the Black Sea,” said Nadia, talking of her parents.
Her father Engel Yerasulmsky had...
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
We live a long stone's throw from Chichester harbour, where we can sail, or go to Goodwood, where, if we wished, we can fly, or go to the race track where there is always a fine display of cars - and of course, the Revival and the Festival of Speed...
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
SnorBan® is a small company. It is owned and managed by my wife, Claudette, and me, Joe Hepworth.
Now, as we have no children we like to think of you, visitors and purchasers, as part of our family, the family of SnorBan®. We like hearing from you when you phone, and...
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010