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My mum always trots out a saying which relates to personal finanaces, roughly translated from Turkish it goes " a man should only stretch his legs as far as his blanket can cover" and my late grandad used to say, again roughly translated from Turkish "a parent can give a child a whole vineyard, but a child will be hard put to give his parents a bunch of grapes" Both quaint but kind of relevant.

"I've heard staff at my sons nursery using 'aks too and it horrifies me. I've also heard staff saying 'we was...' and ' you was...' I wouldn't mind so much but we are paying a fortune for him to attend and he's being supervised by people who don't talk proper...like!"


Extracted from a rare venture into the Family Room.

"Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills..."

Dolly Parton


"Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away. We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about."

Best in Show

GORE VIDAL


On US politicians - "The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since."


On the US electorate - "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."


On the press - "A writer must always tell the truth, unless he is a journalist."


On art and politics - "There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."

From today's Times:


"It is true that the Olympic Games are not political in spirit or in idea, but this gathering of men and women sounds a political note in a higher sense. Here there is afforded an opportunity for all, above all political differences, to learn to know one another and thus to promote understanding among nations."


The original author?



Joseph Goebbels

a gem from wiggo


"To win Olympic gold in your home city in a velodrome would have been incredible, with three or four thousand people cheering you on. But to do it round the streets of wherever we are, it was phenomenal. Going through Kingston at the end there, the noise was amazing.


I was trying to soak it in because I had no memories of my last Olympics.


And it doesn?t get much better than this setting, in front of wherever we are, that castle.

It?s just so British, isn?t it?"

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