As I fast
track another pile of badly thought-out election leaflets from the door mat to
the recycle bin, I can’t help wondering how many politician’s faces are
destined to become tomorrow’s packaging materials. Who says politicians don’t
do enough to help the environment?
Whilst
enjoying a cheese scone at my local Sainsbury’s café, I started pondering the
pronunciation of the word ‘scone’. The lady who served me pronounced it as I
do, with a long ‘o’ as in ‘bone’. But of course, many people use the shorter
‘o’ version to rhyme with ‘con’. This always puzzles me, as it seems to follow
the pattern of words such as ‘cone’, ‘crone’, ‘phone’, ‘tone’, ‘zone’… Well,
you get the idea. Mind you, the ‘scone-related’ scenario that really irritates
me is that many cafés that offer cream teas serve them with fruited scones, as
opposed to the more traditional, plain Devon scones. Sorry, this combination
just doesn’t work for me.
It’s very
nice of Cadbury’s to emblazon my name across many of their chocolate
multipacks. Does having the name ‘Joy’ on them mean they’re all for me? Well,
there was no harm in asking.
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