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Most of these are good advice and fairly obvious as soon as you stop seeing other countries as some sort of theme park arranged for your convenience and start thinking like someone who lives there. Choose restaurants away from major tourist attractions, preferably ones that don't… Read More

Feeling glad to be a Gen X adult who is too old to care what teenagers think is cool or not. I come to Buzzfeed for escapism, couldn't care less what nonsense people are trying to bully each other about. Be you, be comfortable with yourself, all these fads & fashions just go round… Read More

I miss gooseberries! My dad grew the sour green kind in our garden when I was little but they are hard to find in the shops these days as they are not really grown commercially. I should plant my own bush I suppose. The sweet purple kind grow wild, but only in very rural parts of… Read More

It's an Indian sweet made from milk and flour, boiled up into a dough and then soaked in syrup, often flavoured with rosewater. It's the perfect dessert after curry and dhal, but it's most definitely not a fruit!

Errr, no. On Facebook I control exactly who sees what and I deliberately don't have any family members or anyone connected with my work as FB friends, I only have people I actually know well - so I can say whatever I like and people don't generally misunderstand me. On Twitter, I… Read More

No.1 should read "This map shows which bit of the USA is directly across the ocean from you", since as No.2 points out - most of us don't live in the USA.

What worries me is that since GRRM has had a discussion with D&D about how the saga ends, and presumably they are going to take the show more or less in that direction, albeit by a much more streamlined route - then the show is now starting to give us spoilers for the books that… Read More

So, what have we learnt? That self-sizing doesn't work and I will still have to traipse from shop to shop getting measured each time, and trying on tons of very slightly different bras to find one that fits properly - and that the ones that actually fit come from speciality lingerie… Read More

I have NEVER got into a club for free, or ahead of the queue. I have NEVER expected anyone to pay for me on a date, and can't even remember the last time it happened. I absolutely do not agree that there is a huge range of beautiful flattering clothes just waiting for me in every… Read More

It amazes me that being 'anti-vaccine' is still a live issue in the US. Here in the UK and Europe, there was a media fuss about Dr Wakefield's allegations (now completely debunked) that the MMR vaccine 'caused' autism, just after their publication in 1998. It lasted a couple of years,… Read More