So agree about how things go off the boil when the couple get together. Frasier just wasn't the same when Niles and Daphne got together (still bloody funny, but not quite as).
Am reading Eligible at mo - Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride and Prejudice up to date retake. So good! Flying through and chortling all the way.
There will never be too much Dennis content for me - and I suspect lots of others. What a cute little guy ❤️
Brilliant post. Have to be honest I misjudged William - he’s a bit like the (late) Queen - he’s take etiquette seriously but is also in on the joke about the absurdity of taking it too seriously.
This video from the sexted my boss podcast is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years
Just read and enjoyed the Mail article on your road trip with Dennis. Was tempted through the paywall with the promise of fellow feeling as am currently driving through Provence with my two dogs. Was not disappointed. I honestly am afraid to count the cost of travelling with my canine companions. We upgraded from a camper van to an 8m long motor home to make space for them (a German Shepherd and a Golden Retriever). That was just the start. Then there are all the restrictions they bring. The constant ‘dogs en laisse’ signage. Our dogs on the lead have caused us both injuries: my husband has shin pain and I have a bad back and grazed knees like a 5 year old. We hardly ever have them on the lead at home in Cornwall. They are not very good at it. Then there was the 2 nights without sleep suffered by my husband because the retriever found and ate half a sheep that had been dead at least 2 months from the smell of it resulting in diarrhoea and vomiting. Why my husband and not me? Earplugs and gross selfishness plus a bit of ‘your turn now mate after breastfeeding our children through many a disturbed night 30 years ago’
Did you get Dennis a dog passport while you were in Spain?
Thank you on the paywall front and hahahaha no I think quite fair enough re your husband. And no but someone told me I should get a European one, and then I don't have to bother with all the faff and VAST EXPENSE of paperwork etc. So I might do. Although I think for the time being we might stay put in GB!
Love your writing and thanks for all the book recommendations... on the same page re Colin From Accounts... adored the first series and dived into Series 2...haven't quite finished watching yet but just watched the one where Ash doesn't turn up for dinner...and well...felt as you say a tad disappointed. Will watch the rest & hope for some uplift.
Sooo glad to learn that calling dinner, dinner is the right thing too - do the 'Supper' people know this? (will be buying William's manners book) Thanks again
I found a hitherto unsuspected use for poo bags today on our Rousillon ramble. I gave the dog a fuss and rub down before realising he had rolled in yet another dead thing. There was nowhere to wash my hands. Not even a horse chestnut leaf and a stream. So I had to eat my sandwiches and crisps with poo bags on my hands. Have bought antiseptic wipes now.
I've put in for the Robert Harris! His Cicero trilogy is the one time I've ever successfully recommended something to my uncle who mostly reads political biographies.
And I give out my password fairly easily, but it's in Swedish. 😀
William has a website with courses and I’m seriously interested. If I’m ever in a dinner situation with several courses, I’m stuffed re the silver. Off to preorder the book. You’re right about the couple getting together then a bit of a disappointment, I just hadn’t realised it. Thinking of, for example, the three Bridget Jones’ films, the point is will she/wont she and who with is the backbone on which everything else rests. Dennis is such a good boy.
And that reminds me, I meant to make an online donation to the church I was at for a wedding, having forgotten to have any change handy for the collection (in my defence, I hadn’t been to a church wedding in almost a decade).
I just this morning finished the first Slow Horses book - god, it’s magnificent. Why did I stop reading spy books?!
On retiring collections, or, well any church collections - when we were on our French hols we ended up sitting for a few minutes in the back of a church service. It was all very peaceful listening to the French service, enjoying the church etc, when the baskets came round during what I gathered to be the offertory hymn. And not just any baskets, if you'd forgotten your coins, no matter, there was a credit card payment machine affixed to the middle, which people were indeed using.
So agree about how things go off the boil when the couple get together. Frasier just wasn't the same when Niles and Daphne got together (still bloody funny, but not quite as).
Am reading Eligible at mo - Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride and Prejudice up to date retake. So good! Flying through and chortling all the way.
There will never be too much Dennis content for me - and I suspect lots of others. What a cute little guy ❤️
Brilliant post. Have to be honest I misjudged William - he’s a bit like the (late) Queen - he’s take etiquette seriously but is also in on the joke about the absurdity of taking it too seriously.
This video from the sexted my boss podcast is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9AcqoNCvZQ/?igsh=NDhmaXVudzRuZW95
Yes exactly! I think it's easy to hear 'etiquette expert' and roll one's eyes. But he's very knowing and funny, as well as RIGHT, about it!
Just read and enjoyed the Mail article on your road trip with Dennis. Was tempted through the paywall with the promise of fellow feeling as am currently driving through Provence with my two dogs. Was not disappointed. I honestly am afraid to count the cost of travelling with my canine companions. We upgraded from a camper van to an 8m long motor home to make space for them (a German Shepherd and a Golden Retriever). That was just the start. Then there are all the restrictions they bring. The constant ‘dogs en laisse’ signage. Our dogs on the lead have caused us both injuries: my husband has shin pain and I have a bad back and grazed knees like a 5 year old. We hardly ever have them on the lead at home in Cornwall. They are not very good at it. Then there was the 2 nights without sleep suffered by my husband because the retriever found and ate half a sheep that had been dead at least 2 months from the smell of it resulting in diarrhoea and vomiting. Why my husband and not me? Earplugs and gross selfishness plus a bit of ‘your turn now mate after breastfeeding our children through many a disturbed night 30 years ago’
Did you get Dennis a dog passport while you were in Spain?
Thank you on the paywall front and hahahaha no I think quite fair enough re your husband. And no but someone told me I should get a European one, and then I don't have to bother with all the faff and VAST EXPENSE of paperwork etc. So I might do. Although I think for the time being we might stay put in GB!
Love your writing and thanks for all the book recommendations... on the same page re Colin From Accounts... adored the first series and dived into Series 2...haven't quite finished watching yet but just watched the one where Ash doesn't turn up for dinner...and well...felt as you say a tad disappointed. Will watch the rest & hope for some uplift.
Sooo glad to learn that calling dinner, dinner is the right thing too - do the 'Supper' people know this? (will be buying William's manners book) Thanks again
I feel a bit of a heel criticising it when there are good bits I just felt the reviews over-egged it a bit?!
Exactly that.
Being from ‘Up North’ I’m still on tea although it’s good to know that snooty supper is just as frowned upon
Also Northern and growing up, lunch wasn't even in my vocab – it was breakfast, DINNER, and tea.
Very true, plus supper was a snack/Horlicks at bedtime
Same in Cornwall.
I’m married to a Cornishman living in Cornwall & it’s tea here too… I use both… doesn’t matter really… definitely prefer it to supper
I was bought up on cabbage !!!
I found a hitherto unsuspected use for poo bags today on our Rousillon ramble. I gave the dog a fuss and rub down before realising he had rolled in yet another dead thing. There was nowhere to wash my hands. Not even a horse chestnut leaf and a stream. So I had to eat my sandwiches and crisps with poo bags on my hands. Have bought antiseptic wipes now.
As ever a great chat.
Might the ban on cabbage and sprouts be more to do with cooking and other odours associated mixing badly with that of damp dog?
Loving that you READ books. I offer this quote as entertainment, not judgement…
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it”.
Bertrand Russell
Thank you and ha yes v possibly! Although it's not as if I'm reading Proust...
I've put in for the Robert Harris! His Cicero trilogy is the one time I've ever successfully recommended something to my uncle who mostly reads political biographies.
And I give out my password fairly easily, but it's in Swedish. 😀
OOH haven't read, so will do, thank you.
William has a website with courses and I’m seriously interested. If I’m ever in a dinner situation with several courses, I’m stuffed re the silver. Off to preorder the book. You’re right about the couple getting together then a bit of a disappointment, I just hadn’t realised it. Thinking of, for example, the three Bridget Jones’ films, the point is will she/wont she and who with is the backbone on which everything else rests. Dennis is such a good boy.
EXACTLY. And I imagine the same will apply with the forthcoming one in which she has a toyboy. We're all romantics at heart, really.
I’m hoping, I’m sure in vain, that they get Daniel Craig to play Mr Wallaker (?spelling)
So glad to hear that William is a good egg!
And that reminds me, I meant to make an online donation to the church I was at for a wedding, having forgotten to have any change handy for the collection (in my defence, I hadn’t been to a church wedding in almost a decade).
I just this morning finished the first Slow Horses book - god, it’s magnificent. Why did I stop reading spy books?!
Oooooh isn't it great? And I think the TV series one of those rare adaptations that does the books justice. HA to the donation. Always *always* me.
On retiring collections, or, well any church collections - when we were on our French hols we ended up sitting for a few minutes in the back of a church service. It was all very peaceful listening to the French service, enjoying the church etc, when the baskets came round during what I gathered to be the offertory hymn. And not just any baskets, if you'd forgotten your coins, no matter, there was a credit card payment machine affixed to the middle, which people were indeed using.
Hahaha VERY canny. Although of course a card machine might scratch the plate too...
No plates there just baskets :)