It appears my sister has a weakness for puerile innuendo and double entendre, and is currently channelling Finbarr Saunders. Exhibit 1 Comments here about the Wii games console Exhibit 2 Comments on her own Flickr photo of cormorants or shags So can I direct her to page 64 of the current Argos catalogue, the gardening […]
Entries Tagged as 'Language'
Jumping at shadows
May 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
We had a little bit of local excitement yesterday when the A23 was closed because of a bomb scare. Traffic was backed up all over town when the road was closed between Pease Pottage and Bolney village. One of the exits was so backed up that traffic was being pulled off the motorway at the […]
Ouch!
April 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
I reckon half the population crossed their legs when they heard this story on the radio news this morning. One small but interesting bit of trivia was missed out though. As anyone who has a copy of Harrap’s French-English slang dictionary – one of my favourite books – knows ‘zizi’ is a French slang word […]
Today’s Conservapedia hilarity
March 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
The Conservapedia site looks like being a great source of entertainment, even despite the scary thought that those behind it are totally serious. For some reason, Wikipedia does not have an entry on it, but it is mentioned in the entry about the Eagle Forum. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the whole business is […]
Life On Mars
February 14th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Life
Not only did tonight’s Broadfield Forum meeting finish early enough for me to be home and settled in before the new series of Life On Mars started, but immediately afterwards they showed episode two on BBC 4. Episode one had Marc Warren playing a nasty piece of work. I spent the whole bloody hour trying […]
Partially processed
February 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
It is probably not a good idea to dwell too much on the methods used in modern food production, but the current bird flu-related events in Suffolk are making some level of exposure unavoidable. Plenty of people have commented on how the film of Bernard Mathews’ facility shows how the place is much more of […]
Tags: Food·Language·Medicine/Health
Heavy weather
January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Heavy weather · Life
One of the least original things to say must be to comment on how ridiculous it is that in a country which experiences winter every year, and has done for as long as anyone can remember, our services just can’t cope. The only thing more predictable than the fact that it will get cold at […]
Primark
December 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
There are reasons to like and dislike Primark. For families on a tight budget the place is brilliant, for example, but you have to wonder what sort of exploitation makes the prices possible. For me personally there is one major reason to dislike the place – the belts which are all ‘one-size’. I don’t know […]
Subtle changes
December 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Subtle changes · Politics
A week or so after the event, the local[*] Tory party website finally caught up with the defection of one of their councillors, and the subsequent change to the balance of power. First of all, Marcella Head’s name has disappeared from the list of their councillors, but there has also been a very subtle change […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Language·Tories
Paedophile Lobby?
December 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
As soon as I hit the ‘publish’ button on that last post I realised that something struck me as odd in this description of a Polish right-wing website: The website urged its followers to collect information about “persons engaged in anti-fascist and anti-racist activities, on coloured immigrants, on left-wing activists and sympathisers and on the […]
