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Haha, I saw the cat very quickly. Not usually good at those things. Venice is where I discovered Grom ice cream and nothing else has ever quite lived up to it.

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When I first came to London from the North, I derived an indecent amount of amusement from the long “a”. 40 years later and I still remember an educational film seen at a museum that prompted much juvenile sniggering - “The master craftsmen of glassblowing”.

Cricket ball films were fascinating btw 👍🏻

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I had elocution lessons to rid me of Yorkshire accent (upwardly mobile mother...) and BA(R)TH was mastered but then she required PLA(R)STIC. The hill on which I didn’t die but refused to climb. 😂

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They don’t seem to have included a West Country pronunciation of Bath (the City). I grew up in Wiltshire and for many people it’s Ba’ath. Sorry, just sayin’

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Found the cat. SPOILERS: tfel reppu. (Read in reverse)

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Always love the cat and the house pic. It always feels like Where’s Wally for grown ups.

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Found the cat, top right, almost in the corner.

I love Venice. We got lost a few times which was delightful.

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Cat has a very cheeky face. Love it. My husband and I have the Bath argument regularly. He’s from Kent I’m from Bristol. Most Bristolians who didn’t have their accent beaten out of them have a hard A pronunciation. I love the accents in the U.K. it amazes me that in a country so small we have so many varied regional accents. It’s fab.

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[start of grump] Well I was going to spend a happy few minutes looking for the cat but made the mistake of reading the comments first. FFS why do people do that?? [grumps ends]

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That does SOUND like *the* Richard Dawkins. Crumbs.

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Doesn't it?

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Found the cat! Too quickly ☹️

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Trop beau!

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My husband and I got engaged in Venice so it’ll always have a special place in my heart. We stayed on the big island below the main bit called Giudecca which was certainly less crowded than the other bit. We saved a fortune in water buses as they assumed we were staying at the Hilton which has a free water bus shuttle every hour!

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