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Bikram Yoga
2010-01-17 01:48:12
'Wry Society'
Hugo has always had a problem with flexibility due to long hours sitting at a trading screen.To Hugo the idea of working out while in a sauna seems like the ultimate in exercise multitasking. Although when the temperature reaches 40.5 degrees celsius Hugo forgets to follow the trainers multitask instructions, breath, drink, focus, enjoy!
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Body Combat
2010-01-18 15:09:56
'Wry Society'
The story tells of a 'Head Hunter' who works in the city. The lady in question is enrolled into a 'body combat' gym class as a form of anger management. This attempt to control her aggression ends in vain!
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Bored Fashion Director
2010-01-17 01:48:12
'Wry Society'
The eyebrows are Melanie van Vass's prime weapon.They have a permanent look somewhere between faintly bored and questioning. Melanie says, "It does not pay to let your opinions show when you are the fashion director of Nouvelle Vague, the most influential magazine on the planet."
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Bridge Night
2010-01-17 05:10:01
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The City Cyclist
2010-01-21 15:30:45
'Wry Society'
Doctors orders send City trader Luke Bucknall into the saddle in an atempt to avoid a stroke before he is fiftieth Birthday. After six months of pedal power Luke returns to the doctor presenting with back pain,inflamed crotch,swollen knee joint, asthma and chronic ache in the hip. "City cyclists are vulnerable to respiratory problems" said the Doctor, "they inhale so much carbon from lorries and 4x4's. I suggest you drive to work in future."
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The Lap Pool!
2010-01-15 03:44:24
'Wry Society'
Swimming is a fantastic low impact exercise unless you are Jeremy who takes the wind out of Damien from accounts sails by hitting him right in the speedo button.
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The Hotel Gym
2010-01-17 01:48:19
'Wry Society'
Rufus's first-class flight to New York from Heathrow leaves him feeling a little jet-lagged. After checking in at the Palace Plaza he finds himself pounding the tread mill in the 24-hour Gym at three in the morning.
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Kettlebells
2010-01-15 03:44:24
'Wry Society'
'Kettlebells' Fictional piece for The FT on a new exercise craze for city stockbrokers taken from old Soviet Union army training regimes.
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Land Lubber
2010-01-17 01:48:07
'Wry Society'
Susie is invited on a yachting trip by a city trader. Dressed like a Bond Girl Susie is disappointed to find herself boarding not a 50 meter superyacht with hot and cold running crew but a 30 foot sail boat! seasickness sets in and Susie jumps overboard emerging out the waves on shore.By no coincidence the image pays homage to Ursula Andress in The Bond film 'Dr No'
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Le Camping
2010-01-15 03:44:24
'Wry Society'
Le Camping-Illustrates a short story about a families camping trip in France. The camp site, to the delight of the families two adolescent teenagers, is located next to a naturist beach!
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Legs Bums and Tums
2010-01-15 03:44:24
'Wry Society'
The fictional short story tells of a senior administrator who has ironically piled on the wrong sort of pounds during the credit crunch, mainly due to the after work sorrow drowners.
During the class, embarrassingly her gusset snaps and an unwanted sound of machine gun fire escapes her hind quarters.
Sculking back to her office she invests in a pair of industrial strength elastic wonder pants and a chicken and mayo ciabatta.
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The Recycle Centre
2010-01-17 01:48:17
'Wry Society'
After dismantling the Christmas tree businessman Peter Wyman made his annual trip to the dump along with the other leftover festive rubbish packed in black bin liners. Unfortunately the dropping half a dozen empty bottles of Tesco's Asti Spumante in front of the other well heeled Gloucestershire males was like committing social suicide.
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Ski Fit!
2010-01-17 01:48:06
'Wry Society'
Invited on an all expenses paid corporate ski trip Nigel won't let his dodgy knee stop him from going. Nigel partakes in a ski fit class involving circuit training with an industrial sized rubber band. Suddenly something snaps and it's not the rubber band!
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Superyacht Crew
2010-01-16 02:48:56
'Wry Society'
Down on his luck Fergus Davison had dropped out of the city four years ago and began buying and selling yachts. This proved quite lucrative until he gets lumbered with the unseaworthy 'Four Leaf Clover' for whom he had a buyer in Monaco. Caught in a storm Fergus is stranded in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Not only is he broke, so is his boat! Noticing a crew from a superyacht crew 'Liberty', all dressed in matching polo shirts Fergus steels a shirt and orders his parts for repair on the superyacht crew account.
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The Banker Divorce
2010-01-16 02:48:57
'Wry Society'
Debbie Hazlitt leaves dull banker husband for muscular handy man Karl who's converting the Hazlitt Notting Hill house at much expense. All Hugo Hazlitt can afford is a one bedroom flat in Acton and in the mean time Karl has left Debbie for her best friend while sueing the Hazlitt's for a lower back injury suffered at work (due to horizontal jogging with Mrs Hazlitt!) Debbie gets the kids and a three bedroom outside of London while handyman Karl has done very nicely.
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The Gap Year
2010-01-17 05:10:00
'Wry Society'.
This piece was about a teenager finishing her private school education and going on a life changing gap year!After loosing various jobs and ditching her voluntary work in Africa the whole jaunt gets funded by Daddies flexible friend.Ironically our character ends up in a Buenos Aires hostel, where she meets several of her boarding school mates.Small world!
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The Hip Hotel
2010-01-17 01:48:17
'Wry Society'
Fund manager George Bagshaw finds himself booked into the hottest hotel in Manhattan by his new glamorous PA. As an experienced business traveller George guesses this venue will be another triumph of style over service.
Check in is slow the rooms are dark and the hotel thinks it's a nightclub!
A few weeks later Bagshaw spots the hotels owner in Claridge's foyer only a stones throw from another one of the hoteliers establishments.
A waiter explains "When he's in London he prefers to stay in Claridge's as the service is much better."
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The Paparazzi Shy Celebrity
2010-01-16 02:48:59
'Wry Society'
Juliet Jones's first taste of fame as the scantily clad scullery maid on TV's Behind Celebrity Chef.In the early days she would make a point of going to the Ivy in hope of making the next days red-tops. Two years on she has married former rock musician Dave Rage and now wants to be considered a serious artiste. Soon the paparazzi loose interest until news of her husband's alleged affair with a transvestite X factor finalist.
Juliet fears it's back to the red-tops!
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The Sauna
2010-01-16 02:48:57
'Wry Society'
Piece about steam room and sauna etiquette and concluding there should be no personal grooming, no exercise or stretching, no self-petting
and keeping it covered!
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The Urban Dog
2010-01-17 01:48:06
'Wry Society'
Who gets dressed up to take the dog for a walk?
Madeleine Stitch does when her husband runs off with the yoga instructor and Hector the rare-breed bulldog has a yummy owner who looks like a rock star.
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Club 55
2010-01-17 01:48:13
'Wry Society'
It's Midday and the Polish multi millionaire Ivan Chavenkov drops anchor in the Gulf of St Tropez and heads for lunch at Cinquante Cinq the planets most exclusive beach hut.
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