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Long life

Alexander Chancellor: The Chinese must save the cigar from extinction

Plus: Evelyn Waugh's ear trumpet works better than my state-of-the-art Swiss hearing aid

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

In Dorchester during the Christmas holiday I bought a two-slice electric toaster at Currys. It was a nice little toaster that worked very well when I got it home. And it cost only £4.50, which turned out to be little more than half the price of a packet of Marlboro cigarettes.

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