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Maltesergate
on Nov 1, 2009 in sheets Leeds Maltesers hotels YOU know me, I'm not one to say 'I told you so,' but..... I told you so.In my last post I mentioned that the dearly beloved had discovered the delights of eBay. I haven't yet had a parade of delivery men asking where they can put the 10,000 left-hand...
Have Laptop, Can't Type
on Sep 26, 2009 in typing laptop eBay I WAS so fed up with the dearly beloved asking me to look up things on the internet - exciting things like the price of a pack of 1,000 hinges from some site with a name like Bodgit and Runn - that I bought him a laptop for his birthday.Big mistake.H...
Liz Jones On Exmoor
on Sep 7, 2009 in Liz Jones JOURNALIST Liz Jones has been causing a bit of a furore in these parts. You may have read about the London-based writer who, following her divorce, upped sticks and moved to Exmoor.This fashionista vegan, who never goes on a date without having a Bra...
Why Don't You Come Up and Fact Me?
on Aug 15, 2009 in advertisements English language I AM aware English is an evolving language, otherwise we’d all sound like a Chaucer poem (‘swiche glarynge eyen hadde he as an hare’ or ‘his eyes were as shiny as his hair’) but I get annoyed when people take too many liberties with my moth...
The Most Important Interview Questions
on Jul 30, 2009 in interviews WE have been holding interviews at work for a trainee reporter. All these earnest young men and women troop through our doors, clutching their cuttings, and are put through their paces. We trust in providence – and the editor - that the best candid...
Leave Arlene Phillips Alone
on Jul 19, 2009 in Craig Revel Horwood Strictly Come Dancing Bruno Tonioli Alesha Dixon Arlene Phillips ageism Len Goodman I'M trying to release my inner bitch. Some people may say she's already out, loud and proud but, although my sharp tongue may run away with me at times, I lack the killer instinct.Small children know that at the hint of a tear in their eye I will wil...