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    September 27

    Back by special demand

    LBC 97.3 FMMum talks to Jenny Barnet on LBC about her allotment.

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    Everyone loves Magnum. So what happened?

    mpi Thomas Sullivan Magnum lives and resides in the ‘guest house’ of a posh, 200-acre (0.81 km2) beachfront estate, known as Robin’s Nest, in Hawaii, at the invitation of its owner, Robin Masters, the celebrated-but-never-seen author of several dozen lurid novels. Ostensibly this is quid pro quo for Magnum’s services based upon Magnum’s claimed expertise in security; the pilot suggests Magnum also did Masters a favour of some kind.

    In addition, Robin’s Nest is guarded by two highly-trained Doberman Pinschers, Zeusmagnum and Apollo, and all other aspects of the estate are managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major with whom, often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must barter for use of estate amenities other than the guest house and the Ferrari 308 GTS (example. tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.). During early seasons of Magnum, P.I., the voice of Robin Masters, heard only a few times per season, was voiced by Orson Welles.

    A recurrent theme throughout the last two seasons involves Magnum’s suspicion that Higgins is actually Robin Masters. This possibility is never fully substantiated or refuted—Higgins’ dual identity remains an open question until the final episode, where Higgins first admits he is, but later suggests what he had said about Robin Masters was a lie. (Whether he means during this episode, or the entire series is left an open question.)

    Magnum seemingly lives a dream lifestyle: he comes and goes as he pleases, works only when he wants to, has the almost unlimited use of a Ferrari 308 GTS as well as many other of Robin Masters’ luxuries. He keeps a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of fictional Coops beer, wears his father’s treasured Rolex GMT Master wristwatch, is seemingly surrounded by countless beautiful women (who are often his clients or victims in the cases he solves) and enjoys adventures with his buddies Rick and T.C., both former U.S. Marines he served with in the Vietnam War.

    Interestingly, Magnum and Higgins often break the fourth wall by “locking eyes” with the audience; other characters do this, though less frequently.

    At the end of the seventh season, Magnum was killed off, and this was intended to be the end of the series. However, there was outcry from fans, and an eighth, final season was produced, to bring Magnum ‘back to life’, and to round the series off.

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    September 24

    I used to work with this man!

    …back in the days when I endured my time in Felixstowe.

    heathm20090923094223He was my manager and together we worked on container control. He was very professional but also very patient with me. I was very young and naive. He could have given up on me quite but he didn’t.

    I just can’t believe they way he died. No one deserves to have been killed in this way. I am somewhat upset and really liked this guy. He was one true colleague I could trust and rely on while everyone else around me (at the time)
    were trying to put the knife in.

    May you rest in peace my friend. I am thinking of you.

    Full story: Click here

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    Who nicked our monitor?

    Our company has sent round a memo asking the thief who nicked our monitor to give it back. I wouldn’t mind but it’s not worth anything. The question on everyone’s lips is WHO DUN IT?
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