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Mar 3, 2009

Five things I learnt from reading The Guardian’s G2 section this lunchtime

  1. There is apparently a growing trend of people (read: overpaid footballers) hiring an owl to deliver the rings at a wedding. That’s nothing. At our friends Matt & Jane’s wedding last year on the North Yorkshire Moors, a junior barn owl showed up to the reception (uninvited) and sat on everyone, squawking loudly. For free.
    The unexpected wedding guest
  2. Blackberries can be effective for treating diarrhoea – and other handy home remedies and natural bits and bobs. My favourite natural medicinal thing is the use of lettuce to treat insomnia. It worked for Peter Rabbit, and it works for me.
  3. Bodysong is on Film4 tonight at 1.45am. Set your PVRs.
  4. I really want to go to the Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture exhibition at the Barbican. I hope that by noting it down here, I might actually remember to get around to it.
  5. I score a disappointing 4/10 from these “How Angry Are You?” indicators (should be a quiz really; isn’t). I thought I was way angrier than that. Must try harder.
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  1. Steve says:
    March 3, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Obviously iPhones are no good on the diarrhoea front…..

  2. Meg says:
    March 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Ha!

    Well, you could say they’d be *great* – think of how handy all that all-inclusive data connectivity would be in, erm, certain situations where a laptop wouldn’t be any good.

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