I am, it would be fair to say, a stickler for manners. I can’t stand it when people are (unintentionally) rude, or (my bête noire) when children have bad manners. I think this is why other parents (usually one’s whose offspring are dancing round some poor, unfortunate houseguest, as they wave a finger recently extracted [...]
Archive for August 21st, 2008
“Need” and “Would Like”
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The Wrong Side Of The Bed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Sliding Doors", Boris Johnson, Drunk, Wife, Wrong Side of the Bed on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love the saying “I got out of the wrong side of the bed”: it’s one of those phrases that has an almost cartoon-like quality, the suggestion that the sort of day one will have is arbitrary (but inevitable) in its direction, and all that it hinges on is which side of the bed one [...]
