Wow, everyone should have birthdays. Proper birthdays, not just a day for sending cards and buying doughnuts ( Read more... )

Charentais melon with chicken consomme chunks and black pepper ( Read more... )

The Happiest of Happy Birthdays to my beloved drpete

Happy birthday, darling doja35! May the Birthday Fairies bring you a new assistant, a truck full of firement and endless free fizz.

Has anyone got a handy rhyme/mnemonic/other thing to help them remember the difference between Affect and Effect? It's not for me (really!) it is for a colleague, and I can't think of a quick way of doing it atm.

I have got two free tickets to this ( Read more... )

Extreme felicitations to the other half of the Patsy double-act: the Wise to my Morecambe, the Corbett to my Barker, the Nookie Bear to my Roger de Courcey.

I hope you have a splendid day, and an even more splendid year.

I had a very interesting chat with a couple of lovelies last night about luck and whether believing you are lucky makes you lucky ( Read more... )

Is anyone thinking of making a will any time soon? If so, I've got a DIY will kit going spare.

Happy to hand it over to anyone who wants it (comes with forms and a cd-rom) but you may either have to come and visit to get it, or be out and about sometime soon.

Happy Birthday to the ever-lovely nisaba. May your world always be full of friends, fun and fizz, and enough happiness to keep you overflowing.