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[ad#standard] Mr Curtis was, unwittingly, a party to the World’s Best Ever Name Drop. Well, best I have ever heard and, therefore, best ever in the world. Many years ago – getting on for 20 years ago in fact. More even – I was Deputy Editor of the Today newspaper’s gossip Column. Deputy Editor because…
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[ad#standard] The current advertising campaign for McDonalds in France is based around the fact that, apparently, it’s absolutely fine to eat there if you’re gay, even if you’re not bold enough to have come out of the closet to your parents. Your money is as good as any other sucker’s, they reckon, especially as it…
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[ad#standard] I once had a news editor (Hi Dave! Come see us!) who said he liked me because, when I walked down the road, I looked around; up at the roofs, the second storeys, the signs, the people around me, what’s going on. I once had a Geography teacher (Hello Mr Cant! Man, can you…
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[ad#standard] Me: You do control-a, control-c to copy everything, then click the W icon to start Microsoft Word Her: One click or two? Me: One if you click there, two if you go through the Start menu Her: OK then what? Me: Then you do control-v to paste it all into Word so you can…
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[ad#standard] Oh, they say, you’re so lucky living in the South of France, all that great food you get there. Lucky, lucky you. Actually we buy it all at Lidl. Well, nearly all of it. The only stuff we don’t buy there is: Asparagus. This we buy from roadside huts or the guy under the…
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[ad#standard] So I wrote: Just baked the first Camembert de Printemps, the first Camembert of the year made with the milk of cows turned out to pasture for the first time since the winter up in the frozen north of France – very tasty. Rub with a cut clove of garlic, drizzle with whatever white/rosé…
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Here’s what I’ve just written to Columba Blango, the failed LibDem candidate down in Peckham. Dear Columba You were kind enough to respond to my questions about being an ex-pat voter, and I’d like to thank you for that. The only other person to reply, out of all the candidates in your constituency, was the…
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At polling stations there should be two queues. 1. Queue ==> this side to vote for the candidate of your choice; OR 2. Queue <== this side to get a free lottery ticket. You may choose only one queue. You can have EITHER a vote OR a lottery ticket. This will achieve a number of…
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The Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates both replied to my email yesterday, both of them in the middle of the night which shows dedication at least. None of the others have mastered enough of the internet to get a reply out, so pffft to them. Tory boy Andy Stranack said that he basically hates the…
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