Babytalk and Voiceovers

I don’t share J’s obsession with house makeover programmes, but I’m fascinated by the fact that George Clarke has a fairly gruff speaking voice but for his voiceovers always raises pitch quite noticeably. I wonder if it’s for the same reason that we alter pitch and speech patterns when we talk to babies?

Perhaps if politicians employed the same techniques they’d more convincing. After all, most of them do seem to assume their audiences are somewhat immature. Though considering how many numpties we vote for, they may have a point.

Advice

Question posed on Facebook:

“What advice would you give to your 13-year-old self?”

My answer:

“Stop it at once!”

(Thank you, Sophie, for laughing!)

How to make a Greek salad

First, catch your Greek.

(To be continued. Or probably not. I’m just reacting to the fact that for some unknown reason I get a lot of people who have cooking-related blogs liking mine, even though I hardly ever talk about food on any of my WordPress blogs.)