Anne spelt with an E

To the uninitiated 'Anne of Green Gables' is one of the best things, like, ever. All of it - books, TV mini series with Megan Follows and Colleen Dewhurst, spin off series of the other many works of the truly prolific Lucy Maud Montgomery - all very, very good stuff in my opinion. It is only due to Anne of Green Gables that I can confidently spell the word chrysanthemum!

I have discovered (thank you A***, thank you J**) that you can get Anne via you tube in bite size ten minutes portions. These Annelets and of course my old friends tea and radio 4 are helping me ward off soiree stress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2px3wrJqQXs&NR

As all Anne fans will know Anne spells her name with an E. Ideally she would rather be called Cordelia, and who can argue with that, but at the very least please spell Anne with an e. Infinitely more elegant and refined. And it seems the french have a similar pedancy about language.

Chatting to M**** and J******* tonight they were saying how precise the french are about language and finding exactly the right word to explain what you mean. Apparently J******** had to tell M**** to simplify her language last year as she was using a mixture of argot (slang) and very old classical french in order to explain her autocours ideas with necessary, french precision. She said, 'J**** has learned a lot from me'. He was celebrating his birthday tonight. I checked his straight line abilities after about 4 pints and a few shots of JD and he was still straight as an arrow.

So, the french may be swanky with their language, but we Brits can drink fuck-loads and still walk in a straight line.

Oh dear. That's really not something to boast about, is it.