19th June
Confident that the Big Controller will give us a Deal, The Director goes off to film butterflies. We have no phone line yet and there's not much of a mobile signal around the house so I walk to the phone box to call France Telecom. I keep having to wait out the maximum time on hold before I'm cut off and have to start again.
There is a catchy little tune on that France Telecom hold system - it has formed a tinnitus-like loop in my head.
Hel to Ho.
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I know “odd British pronunciations” is a hoary old trope, and we’ve had
posts about it before, but I was struck when looking something up in my
trusty BBC ...
7 hours ago
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