Recently, I had occasion to reinhabit some of my previous ‘worlds’, through chatting to different people at an event. Ones that currently feel very distant from life just now, but I realised I remembered them well enough when I got talking. Linguistics world. My year learning about nationalism. My almost-decade of full-time officer worker life. …
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Throwing stones at windows of opportunity
If you want to make small people laugh, quote business parlance at them. Windows of opportunity. Blue sky thinking. Thinking out of the box. Nothing like taking down a corporation by discovering that children just laugh at all the phrases. Consistently. Now bear in mind that kids can come up with some cracking phrases themselves, …
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Excuse me, have you got the time of day?
Twilight. My old preferred writing time. Many of my teenage poems got written at twilight (before the word was taken over by all things vampiric). There is something about it that lends itself to musing, wistfulness, and other stuff that precedes writing. When to write now? Weekdays, I get a little window of time in …
Mistake glue
Remember Tippex? That saver of misspellings – and also the chief source of gunky pens, when it hadn’t quite dried and you started writing over the top. Someone small was describing it to me yesterday – only they called it mistake glue. They told me that that the mistake glue gathers up all the wrong …
If you don’t find it, write it yourself
I’m reading more websites these days. Some for work, some for home life. For various reasons, looking at food blogs for people who have various intolerances: to dairy, to wheat, in some cases to lots more. I’m on the hunt for recipes. (I usually am, one way or another, but I don’t usually look online.) …