Bread
For the first time in a long time I baked my own bread the other day. Easy and the results are brilliant.
Loved Ones
Evelyn Waugh wrote a brilliant satire on the American Undertaker business called The Loved Ones many years ago.
Over the last year or so the 12 year olds on the radio and television have exterminated our friends and relatives in favour of LO.
If anyone is left to mourn my death, please call them friends and relatives.
Keble Crackers
A couple weeks ago a woman was interviewed on the Today programme on Radio 4 who was talking about the dumbing down of women in films. I was so shocked by this woman's appalling use of, like, language yeah, that I went to the Keble College, Oxford University, web site.
This woman is a senior academic and used to be a Professor of English at another University.
I wrote to the woman and asked her why on earth she spoke the way she did. I also asked if her students could understand her. Very direct of me I know.
To her credit she replied to my message. However, she tried to accuse me of confusing her language with her feminist message. My message missed its mark and she remained completely unbowed, I am afraid.
DW
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