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Bowler Vs Baguette
8th February 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Paul Merton (officially a National Treasure now he has a paunch) is currently presenting Paul Merton In Europe, in which, surprise, he potters around Europe in a nice straw hat investigating the cultural idiosyncrasies of our mainland brethren.
Doubtless, he will stare on in stage-horror whist Johnny Foreigner eats/loons about/fornicates with something strange and unmentionable as we gasp into our Ovaltine and check that the front door safety chain is on... -
Are You Eating Properly, Dear?
10th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
I was queuing at the post office this morning.
Well, I would have been queuing if the French hadn't abolished it in the Fifties and replaced it with 'competitive huddling.'To clarify: instead of the traditional one-behind-the-other business, the idea is that every new individual desirous of service, casually wanders up to the ‘queue’ and joins it somewhere at the side, until the ‘huddle' becomes a sizable cluster. At which point, a...
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Deborah Jane Willimott is a freelance writer who escaped to the snowy promise of the French Alps a few years ago after London destroyed her sanity and her credit rating. She regularly contributes to various websites and British womens glossies including Cosmo and Glamour but despite these grown-up pursuits is primarily a thirty year old still working part-time in a cafe, renting a room the size of a chest freezer and attempting to write amusing and entertaining content for popular consumption. She writes a daily blog at http://theweemo.wordpress.com/ And shes working on a novel. Of course.





