Author name: David Parkin

David Parkin steps out in style…then puts his foot in it

AFTER last week’s photographs of the unfinished construction work at Leeds station, I make no apology for this image of a beautiful creation. No, not me, the jacket I’m wearing in the photo above alongside the Michelangelo of tailoring, James Michelsberg. “The Baron”, as he is colloquially known, has created a new garment for me […]

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David Parkin finds that when it comes to double entendres he’s got a big one

THE development around Leeds railway station continues apace. I’d say there should be more emphasis put on the word “continues” rather than “apace”. Work is continuing at the front and back of the station. If you don’t know which is the front and which is the back then I’d recommend you don’t ask the brains

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David Parkin on a brewing problem and giving the hump to rugby fans

WATCH out, watch out – there’s a Humphrey about. Do you remember that tagline from TV adverts for milk in the 1970s? I didn’t think you would. It was used by dairy Unigate to promote its doorstep deliveries of bottled milk. A “Humphrey” was a mysterious figure that kept drinking people’s milk through long striped

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David Parkin finds himself on the wrong end of a showbiz punch up

I KNOW Frank Sinatra’s original Rat Pack had a reputation as hellraisers but I didn’t expect their modern day tribute act to be quite the same. However news reaches me that the Rat Pack tribute act that I booked for the lunch to celebrate the life of Leeds lawyer Rodney Dalton have been at the

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David Parkin on the ups and downs of running a business

WELL that didn’t take long. Two years after the latest Gino D’Acampo-branded restaurant opened in Leeds, the hospitality firm behind it has done a pre-pack administration deal to shed a load of debt. The Leeds restaurant opened inside the Marriott Hotel off Boar Lane in 2023 with a £1.5m investment and “feature’s” (that is their punctuation, not

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David Parkin on a restaurant full of character and offering to take Kylie to Filey

IT was just like it used to be. Big hitters in a restaurant, doing deals, swapping war stories and laughing uproariously. Garry Wilson and Darren Forshaw of Endless held a drinks event yesterday to celebrate their move to become joint chairs of the private equity firm they founded 20 years ago. In that two decades

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David Parkin on an experience that hits all the right notes

JUST like that! Although, given my new glasses, perhaps I should say “Waay hey!” as Eric Morecambe often exclaimed while waggling them about. His specs, I mean. Having been to a performance of the comedy play The Last Laugh in London a few weeks ago the most apt phrase that is associated with Morecambe and Wise that

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