Monthly Archives: July 2010

Tony’s cooking/laundry tip:- To find out if your spaghetti’s ready to serve, you do the same as when you want to to see if you need to change your underwear: Throw it at the wall and if it sticks, it’s … Continue reading →

Tony travelled the world – long before I met him, he was hungry to see it. Asia, Africa and the Americas – he went to them all. Even as an older man, when his health was less steady and indeed sadly often … Continue reading →

Canadian club and coke over ice. On his first visit to Canada [years before we met], he went to a BBQ where he was given this drink in a long glass that his hosts just kept topping up. Needless to … Continue reading →

1. Films/TV with sad/bad difficult endings -he’d leave the room to avoid them… He even hated ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ for its downbeat ending. 2. ‘Big Brother’ 3. Board and card games -played them to death in his childhood. 4. … Continue reading →

Bryan and Tim shared great times with us – we went to see ‘The Phantom Menace’ together, walked out of Adam Ricketts being a throughly crap little queen in ‘rent’, shared the Millennium on the South Bank [5 hours and no … Continue reading →

From ‘In and Out’ 1997/Frank Oz Emily [Joan Cusack] has arrived at a bar in full wedding kit after being jilted at the alter by her fiance [Kevin Kline] who finally admitted in front of the entire wedding party that … Continue reading →

Tony said… 1. Don’t let your dingle dangle dangler dangle in the dirt, when your dingle dangle dangler should be dangling in your shirt. 2. Pull my nightie down, when you’ve finished. 3. [sung to the tune of ‘Some enchanted … Continue reading →