You know the ones. These Drive Me Insane And whenever I hear them they make me want to do serious injury to the speaker. The following are the worst offenders Pan Fried What is wrong with a simple “fried”. What else are they supposed to use? The bonnet of my car? A dust bin lid? Hand Torn I heard this used to describe the chicken on a Pizza Express
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My alternative Christmas wish list
It is around this time of year that people start to ask me what I might like for Christmas. And since the big day is two months today I thought I would let you see my wish list for this year. I generally draw a blank or come up with a list in my head of a load of luxury items that I would never dream of asking
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The Gallery — Books
This is another one of those blog posts that I wrote and scheduled and then decided to change my mind because I saw a picture after that made me say “ooooh ooooh oooh I have to use that for the Gallery”. The theme of books this week made me leap. You know how much I love books. Reading them, choosing, holding them, staring a piles of them unread
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We don’t want your sort
This was basically the gist of the email that was sent to a couple this week, in error, after they did a tour of Stoke Park. They were thinking of having their wedding there and had fallen in love with it, having rejected 30 other venues. Stoke Park doesn’t come cheap at £230 a head and their intimate wedding of just 30 guests was going to cost £10,000. Until
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Henley Literary Festival
You have probably guessed by now that I love books. And reading. Spending hours in book shops. Listening to authors talk about their books. And, well, just generally anything vaguely book related. Last year I got wind of the fact that there was a Literary Festival just up the road in Henley. Emma Freud was going to be interviewing Sarah Brown and via Twitter Emma said that I should come
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Ranty Friday — The Rolling Stones
So dear reader, tickets have gone on sale this morning for the next Rolling Stones tour. Well I say “tour” but it is actually just two dates. HOw can that be a tour? And half of them didn’t even know about this until last week. Or maybe they did but are just too senile to remember. The “Fifty and Counting” tour. You might think that the fifty in
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The Gallery — Old
I actually changed my mind about the photo for this post at the last minute. Something old is this week’s theme on the Gallery. It was going to be my teddy Stanley but then I thought of the oldest and most splendid thing in our family (and by thing I don’t mean family member!) A thing that was born in 1957, in Holland I believe. It now lives
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Twenty five years ago today
Now generally speaking I am not very good at remembering specific days in the past. In fact I am rubbish at it. I have no recollection of school. In fact I can’t remember what I was doing 20 minutes ago. What was I doing 20 minutes ago? But I know what I was doing on October 16th 1987. I can even see myself doing it. I was standing in
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Why we need more mums to appear in photos
I read this really thought provoking article in the Huffington Post this week: Alison Tate’s declaration that mum stays in the picture. Basically (ie if you are too lazy busy to click on the link and read it for yourself) Alison debates the lack of mums in photos these days. Suggesting us mums are effectively erasing ourselves from our children’s childhood when they look back through photos in years
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No nuns were hurt in the making of this post
Sometimes I see things that make me think “the world has gone barking mad” Yesterday it was this: Sometimes we add joke ingredients to our drink labels (rubber ducks,tennis rackets etc), but not everyone gets the joke twitter.com/innocentdrinks… — innocent drinks (@innocentdrinks) October 10, 2012 Trading Standards ACTUALLY wrote to Innocent Smoothies about the lack of nuns in their smoothies. Somebody actually spent actual time and actual money
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The Gallery — Yellow
Yellow What could I photograph to depict yellow, then? Sunshine. Looks at rain and grey sky Fields of rape seed. Looks at rain and grey sky Buttercups. Looks at rain and grey sky Stunning sun flowers. Looks at rain and grey sky And then it hit me. What have we all been talking about all year? In a “love it” or “hate it” kind of way? What has taken