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I've only ever been to the Stokey Rose & Crown at off-peak times before, but in spite of last night being Saturday and St Patrick's, it was pleasantly uncrowded, with said crowd containing no prats in hats, and one girl with the sort of cleavage that stops conversation. Which is what you want, really, isn't it?
Well now, isn't that interesting - "Pfizer set up a female sexual dysfunction unit a few years ago, comparing Viagra in women to a placebo, but the study had to be stopped because 85 per cent of the women responded to the placebo."
Also, mixing viagra with cocaine? Medically, a really good idea. No, seriously. I wonder if government-funded drug 'information' schemes will be sharing that information.
"Recent research by Mintel suggested more Britons drink alcohol than Germans or Spanish." We also got through the twentieth century without a fascist government. They're both outward traits of a certain British unruliness; that's who we are, and I rather like it.
(Which is not to say that I'll be cheering Scooch against The Ark, 'Vampires Are Alive' and 'Push The Button' come Eurovision; I'm patriotic, not insane)
When mention is made of Lady Antonia Fraser's family, it is generally of her husband, a passable actor who wrote some great screenplays for Joseph Losey back in the day, but who has regrettably insisted on plays and polemics outside that association. Only yesterday did I learn that she was related to a genuinely impressive talent: pioneering Irish fantasist Lord Dunsany was her great-uncle. So add that to poker and left-handed mouse use as things I've picked up this week.
Well now, isn't that interesting - "Pfizer set up a female sexual dysfunction unit a few years ago, comparing Viagra in women to a placebo, but the study had to be stopped because 85 per cent of the women responded to the placebo."
Also, mixing viagra with cocaine? Medically, a really good idea. No, seriously. I wonder if government-funded drug 'information' schemes will be sharing that information.
"Recent research by Mintel suggested more Britons drink alcohol than Germans or Spanish." We also got through the twentieth century without a fascist government. They're both outward traits of a certain British unruliness; that's who we are, and I rather like it.
(Which is not to say that I'll be cheering Scooch against The Ark, 'Vampires Are Alive' and 'Push The Button' come Eurovision; I'm patriotic, not insane)
When mention is made of Lady Antonia Fraser's family, it is generally of her husband, a passable actor who wrote some great screenplays for Joseph Losey back in the day, but who has regrettably insisted on plays and polemics outside that association. Only yesterday did I learn that she was related to a genuinely impressive talent: pioneering Irish fantasist Lord Dunsany was her great-uncle. So add that to poker and left-handed mouse use as things I've picked up this week.
