An infrequent occurrence – out for drinks on Friday night last week, meeting Dan’s colleagues and their partners/wives/girlfriends etc. Some of the talk circled, unsurprisingly, around the web and other techy stuff. But I also got chatting to one of the women there about what it’s like not to work full time any more – …
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Europe in the spring
Paris in the spring…With a few more days to go of nights drawing in, it’s harder to imagine a time where the light will become clearer again, even beautiful. There is something about spring light, and the promise it holds of cheer now, and cheerful times to come. For me, spring is also linked to …
Bag vs sack
Travel broadens the mind, it’s said. I’m not sure where that leaves commuting, and its potential to stimulate good ideas. But it does allow the linguist space to contemplate why words do different things, and try out a few alternatives, without too much distraction. I was thinking about nouns turning into verbs, as they often do …
Book at bedtime
The season of hibernation continues. Do habits set in more quickly when it’s dark all the time? At any rate, we’re back to a reading aloud at the end of the day habit, and the book we’re on, “Full Tilt”, seems worth a mention, particularly when it contains descriptions of blue skies and heat. We’re both keen …
Gifts that rule the world
However many shopping days to go, and all that. The weekend papers fill up with more supplements of presents to buy that promise to help you control your kitchen, your bathroom, cats that visit your garden. Meanwhile, Lakeland continues to attempt to take over the universe…or at least, tries to add to the prospect of taming …