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Our Prince is a bit of a natural at this...
If LJ is playing silly buggers like I think it is, the link is here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/9257543/Prince-Charles-presents-weather-forecast.html -
Forgot I had this journal!
Clearly I'm pretty useless with these journal things, it's almost been a year since I've last posted anything. And my, do things change. So the long and short of my life thus far ( Read more... ) -
An open letter to Merkins and other aliens
After reading countless fan fics that involve the world of Harry Potter, please be aware of the following:
The British are not usually tanned. The amount of fics that describe Potter characters as having some sort of tan is incredibly unrealistic, as my critique of a fiction states:
"wan, usually tanned face".
This really, really, annoys me. Look. Us ( Read more... ) -
All that lovely wine
I have finally got to drink those lovely wines that were won back in 2008. Two weeks last Sunday I went down to my old boss in Dorchester at his home outside of Bridport to partake of these iconic wines and some top-notch food too.
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Three months? God I'm a lazy poster..
And quite a bit happens in three months too ( Read more... ) -
My car is a right bloody nightmare.
Right from the first week that I have had my Renault Clio, it has been nothing but trouble. First the starter motor played up, and though I've had it replaced, the sonoid still plays merry hob. I've learned to whack the starter motor with a hammer and then get a jump start, it will then be fine for at least a month. Yeah, it's a bit of a palaver ( Read more... ) -
Gorillas in the mist
Watching this film reminds me of an anectode of my uncle Phil. Phil is a jeweller who works for a particularly swanky firm in Picadilly, London (Armour and Winston, a firm posh enough to feature during the BBC's coverage of Royal Ascot). Phil is a unprepossessing Welshman with a talent for finding all sorts of objects that lie on the ground. My ( Read more... ) -
Medieval buildings are lethal...
...especially when you forget that you're taller than the average medieval person was.
Yes, I hit my head on a medieval building.
Yes, I had been drinking, but not so much to be that impaired. I could blame my aunt who parked alongside said building when dropping us off, but I won't, because she couldn't have known that I'd hit my head on a low ( Read more... ) -
It's that time of year again..
Three weeks of the toughest sporting event in the world is about to kick off tomorrow, and I'm really looking forward to this year's tour as the General Classification (aka le maillot jeune) is very open and has the added interest of the returning Lance Armstrong. The question is whether he'll be the main focus for Astana, his team, or whether they ( Read more... )