At one stage I turned to Chad and said: “Are you alright? You are looking mildly perturbed”. He told me he felt fine. Where do these words come from?

I also learnt today that I don’t like the sound of really loud cars screeching past me. I have a bad involuntary reaction which reminds me of a cross granny. My brow furrows, lips pucker and I take a sharp intake of breath. Attractive ;+{

I used this interesting word in the pub earlier this evening. Ouch – contact the Plain English Campaign.

Chad and I have a number of daft phrases which we have accumulated over the last six years (it was our anniversary yesterday) and use all the time. Here are a few…

• “It’s like Beirut in here!”: when a place we are in is really noisy or really quiet (this comes from a Catherine Tate character)
• “I knew before”: this is in a French and Saunders sketch. You have to say this really loud and the ‘before’ needs to last about five seconds. This is definitely one for when we are indoors at home!
• “I can do that!”: another Catherine Tate special – a very liberating catchphrase as it encourages you to do anything
• “Have you ever heard of a thing called Butter? Gold in colour and slippery to the touch”: If I say the word ‘butter’, as in “Could you pass me the butter please?”, then Chad out of reflex says this (it’s a scene from Little Britain)
• “Oh bless”: we say this one in a sickly sweet way, mimicking this comedy airhostess that served us on a plane who said it ALL the time i.e. “Hi there, oh bless, would you like some tea? Oh bless you, here is your tea of bless, thanks, bless” -no kidding it was brilliant
• “That madam is a one cent coin”: This has to be said in a dramatic, breathy and condescending way. We say this if someone does something unintentionally annoying. This one is from the funniest shop worker in the history of people that have worked in a shop. A Little Britain character in her own right who works on a cross Channel ferry

So share with me some of your dopey catchphrases please..

Another favourite medical term of the same genre is ‘Flatus’. Don’t know what this is? If you had flatulance you would be passing a number of them!

Whoever said PR was glamourous didn’t work in healthcare
PR ;+)

Today I used the word ‘juxtapose’ in a team meeting.

Not sure where that came from – pretentious, moi… N x

Oh here’s another word – insomnia!!! I cannot sleep but I can hear Chad and both cats snoring!!!