...no Ashes, no World Cups, no ritual humiliation of ancient enemies ( Read more... )

Here we go again, King William's College quiz.

You know the rules - equivalent of looking it up in a library. (This means you can use Google if you've got an inkling of what it is and would be doing the equivalent of reaching for a book on the appropriate subject to check your answers but not to force-break the questions if that makes sense.)

( The questions )

We've just had a discussion at work about about various linguistic abilities following a colleague being overheard having a conversation in impeccable French. Highlights included "I speak Hebrew with an Essex accent" and my world-shattering announcement that I speak Irish with an, um, Irish accent ( Read more... )

The Wenlock Arms is shutting in October. Permanently.
http://savethewenlock.blogspot.com/

It will be no surprise to any of you that my political sympathies are primarily Lib Dem and have been for quite a bit ( Read more... )

The King William's College Quiz answers are available here.

Will try and do a roundup over the next couple of days to see how we did this year.

Yay! That time of year again ( Read more... )

Right, going back to my previous bread posts, I like brown bread. Specifically I like multi-grain bread, but only if it's good bread. This post is mainly for Janni,
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...and I want to start a political party ( Read more... )

Done a bit of f-list pruning. No offence intended, it's just we don't overlap that often.