One-Liner Wednesday: Need a Tardis?
“You can’t have everything; where would you put it?” Steven Wright – my favourite American comedian. One-Liner Wednesday 31 January 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Goodbye/Farewell – ‘Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’
I’ve had more than my share of goodbyes, thank you very much, so when Helen set the theme of ‘Goodbye/Farewell’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, I knew immediately whay my pick would be. For ten years, from 1985 to 1995, I was only around at weekends – and not all of them. That’s what…
Faire-Le-Dodo (87): Will Nutella madness ’spread’* here?
Dear fellow anglophone residents of our fair commune. Many of you will have seen, and no doubt been concerned by, reports of the recent wave of mass hysteria apparently triggered by the deep discounting of Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread by the Intermarché supermarket chain. You will have seen this because it has been reported by…
One-Liner Wednesday: Homeric
“No problem is so big that it can’t be ignored.” The peerless wisdom of Homer Simpson.One-Liner Wednesday 24 January 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Comfort – ‘Built For Comfort’
This week’s theme, as set by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time is ‘comfort’. Is it too soon for another Pink Floyd song? Probably, so that rules out ‘Comfortably Numb’. Pity. But it’s never too soon for another bit of the blues. so here’s a Willie Dixon song, as performed…
Faire-Le-Dodo (87): Did You Know?…
We didn’t see you at the recent annual Vin d’Amitie at the village hall. We can only assume that you didn’t know there was free drink involved (quite an agreeable rosé méthode champènoise, as it happens). You may not even know what the Vin d’Amitie is. For the uninitiated, it’s an evening ‘do’ early in…
One-Liner Wednesday: Fashion Faux-Pas
“Is that a new shirt, or have you just been sick?” Picture this – if you can. August 1967: the Summer of Love and also Liverpool’s first Saturday home game of the new season. I was standing on the Kop, as was my wont in those days. Close to me was a lad wearing a…
Song Lyric Sunday: Natural Disasters – ‘When The Levee Breaks’
I must admit that this week I got completely wrong-footed by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. Based on the prompt she shared from Simply Marquessa, I thought I was well ahead of the game. Not so. But no matter.This week’s theme turns out to be the rather cheery one…
One-Liner Wednesday: Full Marks For Effort
“So ‘vous’ means ‘you’ then?” Perfectly serious question posed by an English lady at Monday’s French Conversation class. She has lived here for eleven years. Eleven years. One-Liner Wednesday 10 January 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Madness – ‘Brain Damage’
“There’s someone in my head but it’s not me” Helen’s chosen the theme of ‘Madness’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. You might say that – for me at any rate – that was a complete no-brainer. It’s pretty obvious from the title of this blog what my favourite group is, but Pink Floyd is…
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