Nigella-watch Part 3

Another week, another post about the ridiculous new series of Nigella Express.

This week’s episode reached the height of all absurdity, simply because of the horrible language the Ms Lawson uses when describing the food.

Lest it be forgotten, Nigella started out as a food writer, rather than a finger-licking kitchen siren, so it’s inevitable that some of her language will be a bit flowery, but I’m going to give you a couple of examples:

– “I just love the haunting brininess of the olives”

– “Mmm, I adore the resin-y rosemary”

Haunting brininess? Does that mean the olives wear white sheets over their heads?

It’s a shame, because her food is often pretty tasty, but this new series is light on good recipes and heavy on mannered looks to the camera, the incessant reminders that “I’m too lazy to chop up an onion” and the ridiculous segments where she “meets friends”.

Grey matter

I’m officially getting old! This morning I spotted a wiry GREY HAIR sticking out of my scalp.

The thing is, I’ve been expecting to change colour for years, but it’s still a shock to see a big, silvery hair!

I can spot the signs of ageing in the bags under my eyes and my sagging body, but going grey is the biggest telltale.

Let’s just hope it makes me look more distinguished and doesn’t happen overnight.

At least I’m not going bald!

Hard as nails!

I’ve been away (not physically, you understand), just not posting for a couple of days.

Not quite sure why… maybe I had writers block, or more to the point it was flippin’ busy at work and I’ve been doing normal stuff in the evenings, like putting blinds up (whew, what an exciting life).

Anyway, thanks to Wendy for this particular contribution to my blog:

Hard as nails

It’s great to know that I’m laughing at exactly the same thing as someone at the other end of the country!This video first surfaced a couple of years ago and I distinctly remember a few of us at work watching it over and over again. It is hilarious, although probably not to everyone’s taste. It still makes me almost wet myself now and that’s only thinking about it!

It reminds me of a time when I was at school and one particular lunchtime when I was in the school library with Dave Milton and Ady Ledger (goodness knows where they are now) and something made us laugh. So hard, in fact, that we were literally crying with laughter. (Of course, I can’t don’t know what it was that was so pant-wettingly funny, although I do recall it had something to do with paper hats – go figure)

You know that laughter that, no matter how hard you try and stop, you just can’t. Your sides ache and you know that, actually, you possibly would feel better if you stopped laughing, but you can’t.

Well, this video does that to me!