“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

—  Eddie Mair

From the PM Newsletter and Weblog
Source: Headlines http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2006/09/weather.shtml at bbc.co.uk, 22 September 2006.

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