...Jednota v rozmanitosti... Not quite up to speed on your Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch? Perhaps if I quote the motto of the European Union in English, it may help; "United in diversity" or if you have a particular affinity for the Indo-European mother language, " In varietate Concordia". Rather like naming the Blue Peter dog/cat/tortoise/presenter to replace the one who was caught in an opiate...
March 2014
...Alfie? (Give me the Dionne Warwick version any day over Cilla 'I'm a professional Scouser' Black). Actually, with this week's Budget having come to pass, the question should really be being asked of George Osborne; or in the interest of Coalition politics, the ultimate dog-in-a-manger, meddlesome old woman Vince Cable should perhaps be being courted for his Solomitic prophesies. In reference to the...
...for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." Demosthenes. Now I would like to think that I share many characteristics with the 4th century BC Greek statesman and orator; a patrician air, an ability to express contemporary society's political and cultural proclivities, (ok, Pontnewyyd Social Club may not have absolute parity with the Senate in Athens, but you get the picture) and...
The reason for channelling my inner Rowdy Yates ( the real star over his boss Gil Favor), is that yesterday on Radio 4's You and Yours, the world of selling houses and estate agency in general was likened to the 'Wild West'. Now I would like to think that I can work a pair of buffalo-hide chaps better than most (without looking like the really camp, hirsute one from The Village People), but I prefer to...
