Londonisms 24 December 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, due to a person under a train, there will be no service in either direction between Liverpool Street and Leytonstone. Please take an alternate route.
Mind the gap.
Ambrosia is Greek for ballocks in German.
She was a cheese eater, but she wasn’t that dodgy.
Harrods Dim Sum Bar
Do you have a Harrods Reward Card, Madam?
That’s what dim sum is — lots of little packages of interesting things.
I’m totally smitten with the scallops.
The Daily Telegraph Letters to the Editor
SIR — Those of us in our later years enjoy cruising the death announcements on your Court & Social page. Without any particular malice, we like to know whom we have outlived.
SIR — How do I decorate my home with e-cards at Christmas and show I have more friends than you?
