Last week, I was sent a photograph of the village in Dorset where my family and I spend our summer holiday.

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Its plot is also slight: Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor at a midwestern university whose arranged marriage has been disarranged by his wife's infidelity, takes his son to his parents' flat in Calcutta to spend their summer holiday.

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Your deflated columnist is departing for his summer holiday, to spend more time with his fantasies.

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Ferdinand was not the only celebrity to spend a holiday in north Wales this summer.

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The company held annual family outing days, provided Christmas gifts and holiday parties for children of employees and provided a recreation facility for families to gather and spend their summer days.

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