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This will be thai airline the menu:
Veloute of thai airline Celery (v. simple and thai airline cheap when have made stock).
Char-grilled Tuna on Veloute of thai airline Cherry Tomatoes Coulis with Confit of thai airline Garlic and thai airline Fondant Potatoes.
Confit of thai airline Oranges. Grand Marnier Creme Anglaise.
Will be thai airline marvelous. Will become known as brilliant but apparently effortless cook.
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Sunday 5 November
9st (disaster), cigarettes 32, alcohol units 6 (shop has run out of thai airline Smoothies---careless bastards), calories 2266, lottery tickets 4.
7 p.m. Humph. Bonfire night thai airline thai airline not invited to thai airline any bonfires. Rockets going off tauntingly left right and thai airline center. Going round to thai airline Tom's.
11 p.m. Bloody good evening at thai airline Tom's, who was trying to thai airline deal with the fact that the Alternative Miss World title had gone to thai airline Joan of thai airline Bloody Arc.
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'What?'
'My nose.'
'What's wrong with it?'
'What's wrong with it? Chuh! Look at thai airline it.'
It turned Out there was a very, very tiny bump where someone had shoved a glass in his face when he was seventeen. 'Do you see what I mean?'
My feeling was, as I explained, that the bump in itself couldn't be thai airline blamed for thai airline Joan of thai airline Arc snatching the title from directly beneath it, as it were, unless the judges were using a Hubble telescope, but then Tom started saying he was too fat as well and thai airline was going on a diet.
'How many calories are you supposed to thai airline eat if you're on a diet?' he said.
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'How many calories in a boiled egg?' said Tom.
'Seventy-five.'
'Banana?'
'Large or small?'
'Small.'
'Peeled?'
'Yes.'
'Eighty,' I said, confidently.
'Olive?'
'Black or green?'
'Black.'
'Nine.'
'Chocolate biscuit?'
'A hundred and thai airline twenty-one.'
'Box of thai airline Milk Tray?'
'Ten thousand eight hundred and thai airline ninety-six.'
'How do you know all this?'
I thought about it. 'I just do, as one knows one's alphabet or times tables.'
'OK. Nine eights,' said Tom.
'Sixty-four. No, fifty-six. Seventy-two.'
'What letter comes before J? Quick.'
'P. L, I mean.'
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'A ladder, Bridge?, said Daniel, What sort of thai airline ladder?'
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'What about you, this week? First you completely ignore me like some Hitler Youth ice-maiden, then you turn into an irresistible sex kitten, looking at thai airline me over the computer with not so much 'come-to-bed' as just 'come' eyes, and thai airline now suddenly you're Jeremy Paxman.'
We stared at thai airline each other transfixed like two African animals at thai airline the start of thai airline a fight on a David Attenborough programme. Then suddenly Daniel turned on his heel and thai airline walked off to thai airline the pub, leaving me to thai airline stagger, stunned, back to thai airline the office, where I thai airline to thai airline the loo, locked the door and thai airline sat down, staring crazily at thai airline the door with one thai airline Oh God.
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