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Grauniad - a newspaper with which I've had a love/hate relationship for many decades. On the one hand, at its best, the only intelligent left-of-centre daily in the UK. At its worst a vehicle for posturing twits who have never explored life beyond the wine bars of the trendier bits of North London. If it had not surrendered to the Metropolitan Hegemony I'm sure it would be a far better paper.
Granite - especially the Cornish sort. Wonderful stuff to climb on. Steep, rough and providing just the right kind of holds where one needs them. Leading Demo Route at Sennen and Doorpost at Bosigran (the latter in a gale and blustery showers) were two of my most memorable climbing experiences.
Gerund - I spent far too much time in Latin at school sketching what gerunds ought to look like. They were very hairy.
Gide - rather oddly, one of my favourite French authors and one of comparatively few I have read fairly extensively in French.
Graves - after St. Julien perhaps my favourite part of the Bordeaux vineyards.
Grey - Lady Jane, Kitten. Despite her attempt to perform major plastic surgery on my face this morning I love the little monster. She's in my lap right now.
Guelph - small town southwest of Toronto, home to Wellington County Brewery which produces some of my favourite beers.
Gin - Definitely the best base for mixed drinks. Martinis, Pink Gin, Gimlets, G&T. Yum.
Golf - sorry don't get it. Turn large tracts of perfectly good farmland into highly specialised parks that people can drive around in milk floats pretending they are taking exercise. WTF.
Golliwogs - the kind that used to come on Robertsonson's jam jars and could be redeemed for extremely politically incorrect statuettes of Negro jazz musicians. I used to collect them when I was smaller enough not to know better.
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oursinGrauniad - a newspaper with which I've had a love/hate relationship for many decades. On the one hand, at its best, the only intelligent left-of-centre daily in the UK. At its worst a vehicle for posturing twits who have never explored life beyond the wine bars of the trendier bits of North London. If it had not surrendered to the Metropolitan Hegemony I'm sure it would be a far better paper.
Granite - especially the Cornish sort. Wonderful stuff to climb on. Steep, rough and providing just the right kind of holds where one needs them. Leading Demo Route at Sennen and Doorpost at Bosigran (the latter in a gale and blustery showers) were two of my most memorable climbing experiences.
Gerund - I spent far too much time in Latin at school sketching what gerunds ought to look like. They were very hairy.
Gide - rather oddly, one of my favourite French authors and one of comparatively few I have read fairly extensively in French.
Graves - after St. Julien perhaps my favourite part of the Bordeaux vineyards.
Grey - Lady Jane, Kitten. Despite her attempt to perform major plastic surgery on my face this morning I love the little monster. She's in my lap right now.
Guelph - small town southwest of Toronto, home to Wellington County Brewery which produces some of my favourite beers.
Gin - Definitely the best base for mixed drinks. Martinis, Pink Gin, Gimlets, G&T. Yum.
Golf - sorry don't get it. Turn large tracts of perfectly good farmland into highly specialised parks that people can drive around in milk floats pretending they are taking exercise. WTF.
Golliwogs - the kind that used to come on Robertsonson's jam jars and could be redeemed for extremely politically incorrect statuettes of Negro jazz musicians. I used to collect them when I was smaller enough not to know better.
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Date: 2006-04-30 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-01 04:37 am (UTC)Ditto, what you said.
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Date: 2006-05-01 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-01 12:09 pm (UTC)I wish I could remember who first said this.
In my day it was metal golliwog brooches of golliwogs of various trades and professions, I think, that you saved up the jamjar stickers for. These probably now fetch immense amounts on eBay.
I find Ronald Searle the definitive taxonomist of the gerund (http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/topp/latin/latin2.htm).