Category: pet hates
there are several, and it seems only right to mention them over and over again in 17 sentences when one would sufice…as i am female!
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ok ok it’s got 6 syllables and I can’t count, or spell. And I only recently heard it said any differently, when I watched a lot of Seinfield re-runs and characters kept saying this wierd 5 syllable word DIS-OR-I-EN-TED. I know it’s one of those ‘you say tamayto, I say tomahtow’ things, but it just…
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In fact it is Miss Scarlet from Cluedo -who was until 1963 called Miss Scarlett. Lots of interesting history about the game, and the characters and how it changes over the years both here, and across the Atlantic. An example is that the Reverend Green is always called Mr Green in America as the games folk…
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So Eurovision 2011 has been and gone. I am sorry, but I have to uncover yet another pet hate of mine. When a performer winks at the camera, I have to have a sick bag on hand. Yuk yuk yuk! And all you lovely Americans need not pretend you don’t know what I am talking about,…
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So there I was at the wonderful James Selby Department Store in Holloway looking for a pan. Every so often I go and stay somewhere that has the ‘self-catering effect’ and when I am on holiday, I like to cook. So what is with places that have pans with no lids? How can you cook properly without…