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Hello, Elle!
Yes, I think I shall patent "lay-ey".
There is a singing dog appearing, too!
A real polar bear?
I would be very wary of it.
These creatures can eat you!
I am looking forward to BGT.
Some great acts and some horrors.
That's entertainment!
I saw a flashmob doing "Ode to Joy" in a square somewhere in Europe. It was great!
I have a wee bet on Rickie Fowler to win the Masters golf.
He has just had a hole in one in the Par 3 competition!
The crowd loved it!

Hi elle
Thanks for your sympathy!
C followed by H is always hard in Italian - for example bruschetta is usually mispronounced in England as "brushetta" when in Italy it is "brusketta".

When I don't know how to pronounce a word in English, I pronounce it in Italian - the latter is far more consistent!

I agree about the meat on Masterchef, chrise. I wouldn't eat any of the lamb, venison or beef they always say is "perfectly" cooked. I thought it was only tapeworms you can get from pork? In Germany it is eaten raw sometimes but every single pig is inspected. I still didn't have any.
The older I get the less meat I eat.
Why would anyone grill radicchio? Sorry if I have mispronounced that! Not going back to see!
I won't bother watching the bake-off with posh pastry chefs again, either. The question is not why its done well, but why it's done at all.

Hi Rusty
Apparently the previous record for holes-in-one on the par three comp is 5 - as I go to bed, this year it stands at nine (including one by the eighty-year old Gary Player!)

PS rusty

We used clarty to mean dirty in Birkenhead, too. I think it's a Northern expression

Hi rosalind
I think there is a theory that we are "more closely related" to pigs, so have more parasites in common (tapeworms being the most obvious, but also liver flukes, amongst others). Beef and lamb aren't as risky served pink; venison, though, would be inedible!

I know "clarty" too, but not sure if it dates to after I moved to the north (or at least, knew northerners).

chris last week on Masterchef someone served venison that looked raw to me. It was described as perfect. They are bonkers.
My uncle lived for many years with a pig's heart valve in his heart.

Chris, yes, old Gary going well.
Must be all the press ups he has been doing all these years!
I like the fun of the Par 3.
Lydia Ko is caddying for Kevin Na!
Last Year McIlroy had a One Direction caddying for him!

Rosalind, Chambers says clarty is Scots/Northern English..
Origin unknown.
I was puzzled earlier (does not take much) when glancing through Bradford's Dictionary, I noticed that under "cute" she had "ankle"?
So, being rather mystified I looked up my Chambers and discovered that "cute/cuit/coot" is a Scots word for ankle.
Certainly new to me!