u = win cz ur stranger
1337-h4x0R and tw33n3r (= txt in the uk) and AIMchat going clear as near-mainstream humour
wonkette channels Blah, Blah Black Sheep‘s joke (w.add-ons) on the DC Emergency text alert system: “OMG WMD WTF!”
p[…]

FIRST CATCH YR LARD
i wz txted a question at the weekend by Her Eminence Trig Sistah Starry, in ref: missus beeton and deep frying in the days of yore (plus also what it used to be done in)
well MS, while beyond grebt on stuff like “giblet pie[…]

= days six/seven just as Travel Writing draws to a close
Drive out through the Saltash side of Marseille(s) towards Arles, stopping off for final swim in rocky basin. Back in N’mes we find the hotel Terminus, staffed by a tiny quavery little ol[…]

Day spent swimming off (and reading on) a rock ledge under Les Calanques, then driving back to Marseille(s) where the Peron Hotel now has a room free! mark s wanders city alone looking for fruit and meets the most thuggish-looking cat in europe, whic[…]

the trust issue
[ps i don’t think i made a remotely clear point in three tries in the comments to barry’s post below! (memo to self: don’t post when you got up at 6am fact-checking footnotes), and i think i’ll leave it for an[…]

Everything on Friday begins with C!!!
Les Calanques: are the mini-mountain ribs on either side of Marseille(s), where no one is allowed walk in August for fear of becoming lovely unrescued barbecue flavoured w.wild rosemary when they catch fire. Ci[…]

Marseille(s) is the most exciting city I’ve ever spent time in – to drive into, to walk around in, to gaze across. Why: “Bcz it’s full of pirates like a GIANT BIG OLD PLYMOUTH!” sez Dr Vick (who as u know grew up in the […]

i don’t know, FIRST they say it’s bad for you, THEN they say it’s good for you[…]

AMBUSHED BY UNEXPECTED EMOTION (ps idea stolen from this guy)
ok so i only just got to watch it, and i kinda knew the deal already – except for the music involved – bcz it first aired in the US two years ago (and ppl talked abt it a lot)[…]

kid-lit comment: wicked stepmothers vs the merely ill-advised: (mild spoilers alert)
Hattie’s aunt in Tom’s Midnight Garden is classic fairytale wicked – unstintingly cruel and cold toward Hattie, her orphan niece, who in her lonel[…]