Category Archives: Popular Culture

  1. One exciting thing

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    October 23, 2011 by jessperriam

    So apart from the fact that I baked sweet potato brownies today, I have something exciting to tell you. I’m …
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  2. Top Five Tuesday heads to the pictures

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    April 5, 2011 by jessperriam

    Or the movies, or the cinema. But here are five flicks you should watch because I said so: 1. Casablanca …
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  3. Top 5 Tuesday – Neighbours edition

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    March 21, 2011 by jessperriam

    There’s no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. But to be fair there are some pretty funny …
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  4. Top 5 Tuesday – high fidelity edition

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    March 15, 2011 by jessperriam

    This week’s top five is a rather unoriginal concept. It’s merely a playlist of five songs which have meant something …
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  5. A weekend in Liverpool

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    March 14, 2011 by jessperriam

    The taxi driver on Saturday night warned me not to say too loudly that I live in Manchester. Such is …
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  6. Put back that wallet, send me no flowers

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    February 13, 2011 by jessperriam

      When I moved to England, I thought it would be less… well, American. Perhaps I arrived at the wrong …
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  7. Nothing minor about you at all

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    February 7, 2011 by jessperriam

    I swore to myself I would not write a King’s Speech related post. That’s mostly because I felt I couldn’t …
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  8. Dear Santa,

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    December 20, 2010 by jessperriam

    I’ve been a good girl this year, I think you’ll agree. In light of the aforementioned good behaviour, might I …
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  9. Living a sitcom life #4 – alien environments

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    December 11, 2010 by jessperriam

    I was watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother last night (actually I lie, I feel asleep during …
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  10. Living a sitcom life #3 – catch phrases

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    December 4, 2010 by jessperriam

    “How you doin’?” “Legen…wait for it… dary!” “Suit up!” “What?” “Does everybody know what time it is?” “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” …
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