Isn’t it funny how some words in your language can evoke such strong feelings? A friend of mine recently asked her Facebook friends what their favourite English words are and the variety was quite astonishing. Some words are obviously pleasurable to roll off the tongue: sibilance, bibulous, scintillate, onomatopoeia or molybdenum. Some seemed innocuous enough […]
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Marooned – Whitstable harbour, Kent, October 2014
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Pop quiz: what do the following terms all have in common: plumcots ligers labradoodles zebroids limequats wholfins jostaberries
Click here for a full portionP&O Britannia inaugural celebrations – and a first look inside
Have you ever wondered why tradition dictates that we smash a bottle of Champagne against the hull of a ship when we name her? You may be surprised to learn that it was the indirect result of a cost cutting exercise by the Royal Navy (which just goes to show that the more things change, […]
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Service Question: how many times can you walk past a London venue without actually realising it is there? Answer: more times than you think! I have walked up Aldwych and The Strand on numerous occasions but it was only when I was actually headed for dinner at STK that I realised where it was (across […]
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As many of my food-minded readers might know, Saturday 14 March was Pi day – officially a day to celebrate the mathematical constant (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter), but also appropriated by the food blogging community as pie day (geddit??). They are probably also familiar with pancake day and Nutella […]
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