Today we had a story in the paper about the bushcricket, a kind of grasshopper for whom 14 per cent of its body weight is taken up by its testicles.
So next time the wife tells me I'm hung like an insect.....
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Christmas parties, eh? Although we are still a two man partnership, we have picked the venue for this year's bash today by visiting a number of establishments in the Covent Garden area.
No it's not a phone box - we tend to link up with others in the area to have a bit of a do.
We considered a number of pubs, worked out the size of the dining areas, whether they had a private bar, the cost of the meal, the quality of the wine, the general demeanour of the manager and all that.
In the end, we did what we always do and chose the pub with the bustiest barmaids. We're that shallow.
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Have you ever noticed how camp the men are who work in the travel business? I don't mean gay, I mean camp - it's two very different things. This week is World Travel Market and a number of our contacts and friends are in the Excel centre camping it up with free champagne and trying to reassure each other that the recession is over while hanging round the Brazil Tourism stall wondering which are men and which are women. I have no explanation why so many fiercely heterosexual men in the travel industry are so camp. It's not just that they don't like football - even I'm not that narrow minded - or the fact so many of them have such wonderfully neat moustaches (like the women on the Spanish Tourism stall). It's the Giles Brandrethy-way they talk or the ever so slightly Butlins-Redcoat way they walk or the bitchy oneupmanship discussions they have about the places they've been to...'oh of course I went to that hotel in Outer Mongolia years ago when it still had some class, darling.' If anyone knows why this should me, answers on a postcard, preferably from a 5* hotel while on a freebie.
Wish you were here....Solly
Ah yes, but you should try the one they opened in INNER Mongolia. Now THAT was a crap hotel!
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