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Readers are taken for an evening at a prestigious hotel night-club, a day in Britain's \"most average town\", a trip round Romford's bourgeois drug addicts, a date with The Lighthouse Family, a few hours with Staffordshire's jet-set, a hen night, a car cruise, a swingers' special evening, and a lovely Sunday drive to see the new B\u0026amp;Q on the bypass. 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It considers the unexpected new pleasures that the second half of life can offer, from learning to code to taking up running (slowly). 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