A friend bought me one of these for Christmas. It's a Nigella Lawson. A sticker on the bottom said:
"We have enough to do in life without adding to the washing up so a dish that you cook in and serve in has to make sense. But actually, the best case for my oven to tableware is that it is beautiful in a relaxed and homey way: and so fantabulously non-stick it’s almost spooky!"
Oh dear. Puts a chap right off his food.
They're back, beginning in Vancouver and touring ze world before ending up in London for 17 nights. The Telegraph reports eight costume changes and a spot of pole-dancing and their blogger snorts that they looked like, "Five fairies that have fallen off a Christmas tree." A commenter remarks:
"Some people are saying that the Spice Girls are aliens who have cloned themselves from pictures of students at Catford High School during a Hallowe'en party, but that's obviously ridiculous. Most extraterrestrials blend in perfectly well, which is why you never notice them."
Over at the Mail - second home to feisty Melanies as we know - the comment thread divides largely along sex lines, the ladies mostly saying "Go for it girls!" the gents muttering that they're "manufactured" and can't sing.
Blokes don't get pop, do they? Discuss.
My sole emotional connection with the cult of Diana comes from my wife having been at her funeral. She worked for The Observer at the time and attended in lieu of the then editor. When it was all over she returned to Deepest Hackney to describe being seated close to where that vain arse Earl Spencer waved his rhetorical two fingers at the senior royals. The word she used was "electrifying." A crisis of sorts consumed the House of Windsor in its wake. Well, that's all history and, ironically, the Diana industry is partly responsible. And now, ten years on, the once famously reticent British public can once again make a spectacle of itself. How about these two, commenting at the Telegraph:
Freedomtoprosper: "Lawyers love this sort of thing, it's like the Bloody Sunday enquiry, a licence to print money."Sam: "In response to the comment about lawyers 'loving this sort of thing' - I'm a lawyer and I love this sort of thing. I must admit it."
Then there's these, at the Mail:
Solarsentinel, England: "Did Henri Paul's airbag go off, and if not why not?"Who says we are no longer a great nation? Damnit, we deserved the Falklands.Paul Evans, Tamworth, England: "Anyone who marries into that family has to be stark raving mad."
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