Z

[ailbhe]

Z is for Zebra crossings, marvellous things when people notice they exist, and less useful otherwise. My pet peeve is people who roar up to the zebra crossing at full speed, braking a foot away, and then glare at me for not having crossed as they approached. My new pet peeve is cyclists cycling across them.

Z is also for Zabaglione, which is some kind of foodstuff I don't know anything about, but also a fabulous rolling-off-tongue word which I strongly suspect would make a marvellous swear.

Z is for Zimbabwe, oddly not in the news any more. I found it very odd listening to conversations between the white Zimbabwean woman I managed in my last workplace and the black Zimbabwean woman who sold her lunchtime sandwiches.

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[shinydan.livejournal.com]

Zimbabwe: What were the conversations about?

[ailbhe]

They were very carefully about the political situation and whether they'd heard anything from their relatives. On tense days, they could get very barbed, in a very *civilised* way.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Zabaglione - s'only fancy egg custard, really. More wobbly than the baked kind, almost as runny as eggnog, but essentially nothing more complicated. I can't stand the stuff, my dad would eat it at every meal given the opportunity.