Archive for December, 2006
Monday, December 4th, 2006
What’s in a mince pie?
Predictably it’s at this time of year that conversation turns to ‘what you do in your country’ to celebrate Christmas; and this inevitably leads to some bright spark, in French class, suggesting that everyone bring in a little something to share and compare before the end of term.
Thus I discovered that it is [...]
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
Fruity fruit
Before I begin - I must apologise for the immature school-boy sense of humour of this post.
At the supermarket yesterday I noticed a box of oranges in the fresh-fruit section that were carrying a rather unfortunate brand-name: ‘FANNY’. Yes - Fanny oranges, all clearly labelled with individual Fanny stickers.
So - I wondered [...]
