Me neither but then I’m totally, and violently allergic to any type of cheese. When I went to live in Italy decades ago, I had a list of phrase to be translated: no cheese, please; a gin and tonic please; can I get you a drink? …. I didn’t need anything else, except for 🍀
Totally agree, @Northerner. He deserves a Blue Peter Badge!*
* tv show for kids in UK that awarded badges for achievement! Uk older readers will remember Val Singleton. She once interviewed me on BBC news. I nearly asked for a Badge!
My goodness @Lee Wilson, you’ve got people thinking 🤔 Yet again, you offer a story which would never have interested me but for seeing your name. I will keep going but having watched half of a Finnish Netflix film, Sisu, about a one man vengeance on a group of Nazis, I’m of an evermore nervous disposition..
as ever, for me, Lee, its your writing skills which force me to read on. As they say here, “Eres un crac”. But please be gentle with me 😘
I was at Oxford when she was “rediscovered”. I remember buying The Sweet Dove Died” at Oxford railway station and giggling my way to London….. what a long time ago…
Worth reading just to learn of ‘a humblebrag’. I’ve never seen this before, either as one word or two, so @Summerabbacat will be saddened at another display of my ignorance. It’s a lovely way to illustrate what Venetia lacks: modesty. Another classic, @Robert Hugill!
I’ve never seen a guy with a mullet cut who looked remotely intelligent- true in the 70’s- 80’s and even more so now. Not that I’m opinionated, of course…. 💇♂️