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"The only [other] thing I could bring was a Black and Decker [tool] to destroy the wall." He's a hypocrite, but he's a funny hypocrite.

http://forgotify.com/

http://www.forvo.com/word/grenier/

Duly sorted out the slightly roundabout method for removing DRM from Kindle files and converting them to epub. Cheap holiday reads ahoy!

Depends on the veg. Broad beans tend to need a good 5 minutes with a stir in the middle. I can't believe I'm actually having this conversation.

The "terrific liar" evidence mounts...

I could go into linguanerd raptures about the shades of meaning in what he said, but basically either there's been no formalised approach for him or he's a terrific liar.

Only on holiday and the like. I had a long, hot and sweaty session with Attila the Animator in Gran Canaria just before Christmas.

£9 to play is a bit of a joke though. Might as well spend a couple of hundred on a last-minute sun holiday and hog the table at the resort all week. Not that I'd advocate that kind of behaviour of course...

Table tennis is the only "sport" at which I'm not excruciatingly useless. Gosforth Central Middle School 'C' Team 1991-92, baby!

I was on Chase Me The Chase, for my sins. Quite tempted by Pointless though... A friend is desperate to take me on the Million Pound Drop () but she's only gone and got herself pregnant, the selfish cow, so that's that for a while.

Some sensational stupidity in the questions on Pointless today. The category was country name origins. Only 10 people out of 100 knew "Rich Coast". Even "Equator" scored 20 or so.

One Tyne. Two Tyne.

It's January. You won't be the only one. Come March or April, though...

The golden rule with gyms is there'll always be someone worse off than you, be it in terms of fitness or attire. So don't worry about it basically. (I was going to say "don't sweat it", but that would defeat the purpose somewhat.)

Even in a wider comparison, this country is fairly unusual in the extent to which it's in thrall to house price inflation as a measure of perceived growth, stretching yourself financially to Get On The Ladder, home ownership as a status symbol and so on.

Probably trying to work out what red and white stripes stand for in the handkerchief code.

Haaaang on, am I being pimped out?!

I don't know what you mean.

No one to tell us no or where to go Or jewles remain still cleaming