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Great stuff Jigjag & Malone for sharing the tales about your global travels - they have entertained us so much!

Special praise to Malone for achieving the 500th Post on PU 🎁

Tyke51, thanks very much for your kind comment on the travelogues. A bit of silliness from time to time does us no harm!

Jigjag, your sketches are always so good, I'm slightly hesitant about responding - I wouldn't like to see standards slide!

I'm working my way through some holiday brochures, wondering where to go next... Ascension Island has a certain ring to it, I feel.

My holiday seems to have revived me, my EDD (Error Detection Device) returned this evening. I was watching 'Travel Man - 48 Hours...'. After the ad-break, the presenter announced 'You rejoin Bob Mortimer and I in Hamburg.' I know this appals many PU members and I
….know how they feel (nearly caught you out there, didn't I? Bet you thought I'd fallen into the trap myself.)

Tyke

Thanks - Glad you enjoyed it, and I believe England won.

Malone

Please dont be hesitant - your stuff is always creative and humorous. We all appreciate it (and the time it takes). Yes, I think Ascension Day is the next "Holy Day of Obligation", or is it Corpus Christi, I am not sure.

And on the topic of punning . .

Our local crematorium has a coffee-shop which proudly bears the monicker:

"Creme de la Crem"



Tends to leave me cold . .


As a pedant, rather than commenting on the poor pun, I should be checking on the correctness of the French article . .

Which I have duly done . .

Gets a 'thumbs down' there as well!

Thanks, jigjag. Your encouragement is heartening, so I won't put my passport away just yet. I may go off globetrotting again soon.

Hannah, I've got to be in the mood for a good pun. Sometimes they just irritate me, sometimes they amuse me. I think I'd have preferred Crema De La Crem for the coffee shop.

Iceland might be an interesting destination for a shopping trip!

Tyke51 - I'd had enough of supermarkets, that's why I need my exotic holidays. Jigjag'll maybe fancy that one - he's probably got old friends there (Ivor Nice-Lolly and I. Scubes are often in the stores, I believe.)

Tyke and malone

I have never visited Iceland (country or store) and the people there seem to have strange names. I am sure there will be a story there! I must do some research.

Hannah

It is a dead cert I would never visit your coffee shop. I am glad you are monitoring French articles. I get irritated when commentators refer to players like Laporte as Le Porte