Alan Johnson on "the family" - I'm liking the cut of his gib

[Tinker]

Here. At last, someone not banging on about marriage being the cure all of society's ills

hee hee Ipanemagirl

I am fine, except am now 5 days overdue with this baby and it's all getting rather tedious...

Did anyone see Alan Johnson on the Tony Blair programme last week?

He was talking about when Blair became a father again as pm, and Alan J said to him "well you know Tony I had three children by the time I was 22" (or something).

Blair said "gosh Alan, you really are working class aren't you".

Yeah, I saw that Puddle. Must admit that I said to my DH "wow, I bet he was a bit wild".

I do like Alan Johnson (and I still like Blair).

what a refreshing change!

going to Wilkapedia him now!

sent him an email!

Have been dying to use "cut of his gib" for ages. Love it.

Melanie Phillips is married to Joshua Rozenburg isn't she? They must have some very intense conversations.

she is very very scary. do you ever hear her on the moral maze on r4? She is merciless! Yes can you imagine the moral debate on what to recycle?
Actually I worked with her once and she was really delightful not at all terrier like. Terribly ungrand and nice.

Who is Joshua Rozenburg? The name rings a bell but I can't think why

legal guy at the times.

I wrote to him inviting him to a fantastic do once and he wrote back the snottiest letter refusing because although I'd written Dear Mr Rozenburg on the letter, my sec had typed Mr Rosenburg on the envelope. Wrote me a whole letter about how rude it was to spell his name wrong.

What a fuckwit, delusions of grandeur. He was so lucky to be invited in the first place, he got crossed off my database!

lol Peahead.

JRz's beard is v unattractive if I remember rightly from his bbc days so I'm sure everyone at your do was better off without him.

p.s. My boy just looked over my shoulder and went: " Look! The f word. On mumsnet!"

oh dear!
that was a slip of the finger. I meant to say "What a rucksit" OBVIOUSLY

Well, quite. Don't worry, he was delighted. And he does seem finally to have learned that context is all, so finds it funny if the f word appears on mumsnet but is shocked and appalled if it is uttered by a peer.

Here he is looking very intense and clever

His paramour, who I suspect can be quite coquettish in the right hands

I love this thread title too- I should have known it was yours, Tinker

She looks coquettish in that picture.

I do really hate beards. I worry about my utter intolerance in this respect. How can I move forward?

Apologies for pedantry, but according to Brewer's (I checked bcs it looked wrong to me) it should be jib
Jib being the triangular foresail

How indeed Scummy- how on earth did you end up as a social worker?

just ensure you never move to scandinavia. or afghanistan. and you should be fine!

it was the premiere of a bond film, too (don't ask)
I repeat - what a rucksit!

I don't know, tamum. I will probably be struck off. i hope I haven't offended you because you have a nice beard?

I do, it's very luxuriant

I used to be terrified of men with beards when I was little- my parents had a lovely artist friend with one and I would never go into the same room as him.

But any fule no you meant gib as in "metal wedge or thrust bearing", didn't you, tinker? Or perhaps as in "male cat (esp a castrated one)"?

Honestly, bakedpotato. Triangular foresails are so last year, when considering the cut of.

It would be good if one of our emoticons had a beard and we could use it to signify that we feel a cultural divide from a particular post, i think.

Unquestionably. I have been a pogonophobic since infancy and a Bad Experience with Rolf Harris. Ugh. And I can tell you know that Tamum has a fine set of mutton chop whiskers she drenches in Elnett to keep them out of her centrifuge
I thought Melanie Phillips had Tracy-Ann-Oberman-stylee big corkscrew ringlets?