First day at school no longer a test...
Ah yes, the first day of school. It evoked terror in many, stirring up memories of stern nuns, rulers across the knuckles and that peculiar smell of chalk-dust and slightly rotten apples, strangely distinctive of classrooms everywhere -- along with the startling realisation that you'd have to do it all again the next day, and the next and the next...
Shameful truth of pedigree dogs
It remains, perhaps, the most horrific programme I have ever had the misfortune not to fully see. Last week, BBC1 aired Pedigree Dogs Exposed and while the title might imply some sort of light-hearted 'Dogs Gone Wild' show, the actual programme was horrific, upsetting and infuriating.
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