"Actually I miss Chrissie and her manerisms(sic) from national forecasts."
I don't. She was the most irritating presenter ever on TV. I had to change channel whenever she appeared. Eventually I gave up watching ITV Weather altogether to avoid her and the almost as bad screechy welsh bird who is now Lembic Opek's (Lib Dem MP, what do you expect with a name like that?) partner.
She actually said something like that, if not that exact phrase on the forecast just before 7am, i was half asleep and it made me jolt up awake properly, I could hardly believe my ears!
Forecast at the end of yesterday's Six - Daniel Corbett said words to the effect of - "Now, some viewers will be saying 'Come on - more cold fronts for the holiday weather? You're pulling my leg, Dan!'" - amusing anyway, but doubly so as the final story of the Six had been about a racehorse injured during the Kentucky Derby, which has now just had major leg surgery!
Delighted as I am to be quoted on the thread's tag-line, as a pernickity English teacher, I'm somewhat less thrilled by the "Your pulling my leg" - which should, of course, be "you're", the contraction of "You are"!
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... speaking of which, I see Rob McElwee has got glasses...
