We chose a typical secondary school in the South-east, assembled a class of 15 year olds and asked them what they'd like to know about sex.
In the evening we put the parents in the same desks. I read the questions to them, and their bafflement was comical. A group of 20 adults had no answer to the question: "What is the female orgasm?" - Trevor Phillips in the Times Educational Supplement (David Browning)
Britons who influenced great events from each of the last ten centuries are immortalised in chocolate. There are four chocolates of each type (40) . . . providing, as each chocolate is munched, an opportunity to reflect on how much the world has changed since the last turn of the millennium. The chocolates are presented in a handmade box. Cost £24.25 inc UK delivery - the MBNA Gift Service Christmas circular (Stan Walinets)
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