Italian Cooking

I serve an Italian who turns out to be from Milan. I notice that he has purchased what was euphemistically called "opening medicine". Anyway it suggests to me that Italian is not all that healthy. I seem to recall that it was alleged that Italian food was the healthiest food in Europe and Finland was the unhealthiest. We may have to revise that

Woman with the badge of a deer. I think that its the White Hart and something to do with Richard II. It turned out that it was a Springbok and she was a South African. She said that she had seen Richard II in London once and the actor playing the King had berated kids for making a noise

Man tells me that his daughter is teaching English to the Uzbeks. If it continues all the locals will be fluent in Stoke dialect. The Muezzin calls "Cost kick a bow agin a wow"

Uncle Harry's last free coat

The guy who always talks about 70s bands was in the other day and talking about Pink Fairies a band I have never heard of. he mentioned the album  Uncle Harry's last free coat. " Not many people have heard of them now, mind you few had heard of them at the time" he remarked.

My daughter told me that a she had heard a news item that 50% of children could not tell the difference between cucumbers and courgettes. We have a problem here where years ago a young man training had never seen a courgette. I feel would have a vegetable identification chart in the same way that the Home Guard had German aircraft ID charts in WWII. I see the courgette as the Dornier of vegetables.

Woman buys carpet and I ask if its a magic one suggesting that she might want to go the Caribbean. She is a cold and wet climate person and hates heat. She went on a cruise to Norway and thought that the Norwegian crew were too drunken. Finland however would do all those lakes and forests and damp clime would be most agreeable. I said that I would ring Helsinki Airport so they can expect the carpet