“You gotta phone, incha?” That’s our cockney rendering of the phrase “You’ve got a phone, haven’t you?” It’s our catch-phrase for any question with a factual answer that’s somewhere on the internet. What’s the capital of Burkina Faso? “You gotta phone incha?” (It’s Ouagadougou, which has long been my favourite capital city name.) Who’s top… Continue reading “You gotta phone, incha?”
About five years ago, on a Saturday in January, a friend and her daughter came to lunch. The Weekend Guardian that day had a feature called something like “Those we have lost”, pictures and stories of people who had died in the previous year. Our friend commented on how many of the deaths had passed… Continue reading “Alive or dead?” (a January question)
My wife and still have all of our vinyl albums, accumulated in our childhoods in the 1960s and 1970s, and when we were more grown up in the 1980s. There are even a few from the 1990s. Neither of us was a great vinyl collector, and there is some doubling up here and there (multiple… Continue reading “I’ve got it on vinyl”
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Many years ago, before we had children (when we used to go out at night), my wife and I had dinner with friends who lived on the other side of London. They were discussing their recent experience of “flat-mates from hell” and they described one woman as “like Kathy Bates in Misery”. We smiled and… Continue reading “She’s just like Kathy Bates in Misery”
Our friend Martha is one of our favourite people, always a very welcome guest. One of our shared dislikes is people claiming that something is “an amazing coincidence” when really it isn’t. “Oh, you’re a Pisces – my mother-in-law is a Pisces, what a coincidence!” That sort of thing. There are 7 billion people on… Continue reading “What a coincidence!”
Do you want to go large for 30p? Well, do you? This has become one of our catchphrases, after an experience at Heathrow Airport. My wife and I (before were married) were travelling to New York for a few days. This was in February 2000 and on this trip we visited the Twin Towers and… Continue reading “Do you want to go large for 30p?”
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