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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Brandy for the parson?
To celebrate our anniversary, we went out for dinner and had an excellent meal at The Olde Thatched Cottage, in Weston-super-Mare.Greek meze, sea bass then coffee… oh and a brandy. It must be years and years and years since I had a cognac, whiskey having become my preference; however, I had glimpsed they had Hine behind the bar so I had […]
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No hot fuzz in Wells
Anyone who has seen the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film ‘Hot Fuzz’ will surely have noticed the lovely setting… it’s not Sandford in Gloucestershire, it’s Wells in Somerset. We visited the other day and had coffee and cake in the grounds of the bishop’s palace!
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You’ve probably seen this directive before…
You’ve no doubt seen this before… it still makes me laugh! The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement […]
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Where have all the comic songs of yesteryear gone?
As a child I remember so many comic songs being played on the radio…or wireless as we called it then. I’m sure they were mostly of little real merit and probably not very comical but we loved them. I can’t imagine anything more ghastly now than ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and yet it was on Children’s Favourites almost every weekend. Then here was ‘You’re A […]
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Lois Elsden 