IN some school, imagines a reader, a teacher is asking the class: "If you had £10 and I took away £1, what would you have?" And a little boy puts his hand up and answers: "A bank account in Cyprus, miss."
IN some school, imagines a reader, a teacher is asking the class: \"If you had £10 and I took away £1, what would you have?\" And a little boy puts his hand up and answers: \"A bank account in Cyprus, miss.\"
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Fowl play
DINING tales continued. Gregor Young recalls when his parents ran a hotel in Crieff, and a party of Americans was in the restaurant at the busiest time of the week, but were holding up proceedings by insisting on having every item on the menu explained to them. Gregor's dad went into Basil Fawlty mode when one of the ladies asked: "What's the chicken?" He couldn't stop himself from telling her: "A little bird that goes cluck, cluck, cluck."
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IN some school, imagines a reader, a teacher is asking the class: "If you had £10 and I took away £1, what would you have?" And a little boy puts his hand up and answers: "A bank account in Cyprus, miss."
Fowl play
DINING tales continued. Gregor Young recalls when his parents ran a hotel in Crieff, and a party of Americans was in the restaurant at the busiest time of the week, but were holding up proceedings by insisting on having every item on the menu explained to them. Gregor's dad went into Basil Fawlty mode when one of the ladies asked: "What's the chicken?" He couldn't stop himself from telling her: "A little bird that goes cluck, cluck, cluck."
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