Is this chap the reason my most commonly used classroom phrase this week has been ‘please don’t dab in my lesson’?

We have a long history of shipping ours to our colonies, eg: Virginia. Later Australia.

I last had a TV in 2007. Then I went and lived somewhere where tv was not in English and I got out of the habit.

I wish the pottery sherds and coins I find in my garden were as interesting and exciting.

What is tenure? And how does it differ from a normal, full time, permanent contract? UK schools don’t have tenure, so I’d welcome the new knowledge.

See, I can’t do that. I would hang mine to dry on a Friday, and by Sunday night they’d be ready.

I love a crisp, cool cotton sheet under my duvet. But what sort of person only has one set of bed linen? How do you manage the laundry rotations with just one set? I’m feeling pretty deprived at present because I’ve only got three- I’ve not yet found a fourth pattern I like. Is it not really boring to have the same…

In the third book, yes you’re right. Bridget is a widow. But I can’t tell you anymore about it coz I got 28 pages in and gave up.

Mine came with the memory of a pond...

My terraced house is older than this pile.

Just today I had info about this from my accountant- not having had any kids, I’ve never known the details, but now I do!

If you are a sovereign, you are the ruler of something/where. If you are a citizen, you are a subject or national of a country.

That’s crazy talk! Anyone would think that you might be interested in some kind of national health service...maybe paid for by some sort of national insurance scheme!

This is sad news. 2016 is full of great artists being taken away too soon. I bloody love a tribe called quest. Great songs- some really fun stuff in there with the groundbreaking sounds. A band with a sense of style and of humour. I left my wallet in el segundo makes me laugh every time ‘it’s got my jimmy hats’ and…

Sometimes they appear on YouTube. Or couch tuner. Or sidereel. Or so I've heard. Or you can get a vpn and go to iplayer.

Mary Berry knows *exactly* how saucy her comments are. I’ve met her at literary festivals a couple of times- her advice saved my cherry cake recipe- and that woman has a cheeky twinkle. Mel and Sue egg her on, but she’s got a mind like a Welsh railway already!

Don't forget the soggy bottoms.

I cycle to and from work on a daily basis in a variety of ‘slip on wedges.’ I can’t cycle in flat shoes. I can’t reach the pedals without them. For the 15k evening cycles with a chum, I will admit to wearing wedge flip flops rather than dressier work shoes.

We always called them German braids if they were inside out French plaits.

I thought that. But I can’t. And once I sex with a man and I couldn’t remember having shagged him before- until at the end when suddenly I was having deja shag....