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poppies & posies While they're not wedding dresses by design, these lovely frocks from Erdem's RTW line would be just as gorgeous walking down the aisle as they are walking down the runway. life in the slow line House Doctor Hoping No-One Dies at the North Korean Fun Fair! No matter how many blogs I manage to write about North Korea before I die, I'll never be able to hammer home just how much fun it is. And I say that even though I was once held ransom there, and on another occasion blacklisted and threatened by the government after they caught me taking the piss out of them in The Guardian. How could anyone not love the land that's home to the Mangyongdae fun fair, the world's shittiest, most depressing quasi-theme park? Everything in the Western World is so disappointingly competent these days. OK, at first glance it ain't so bad. Situated Only 12km from Pyongyang's city centre, Mangyongdae is a place for thrill-seeking North Koreans to come to and unwind after a hard week of slave labour, relentless scavenging for food, KGB hide and seek and trimming the imperial lawns with scissors. These poor schmucks – or lucky schmucks, perhaps? Oh look, a girl on a merry-go-round. ...and a zoo consisting of one peacock. Sorry, no gorilla pics. @alex_hoban

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