I have noticed a bit of a tendency when I write blog post titles. Â They often seem to be in two halves. Â My inner academic of old is not satisfied unless titles have that combination of word play and explanation. If I am to complete this month of writing about reading, and what I’ve learned, …
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I’m wading into the backwaters of the blog – the posts I haven’t visited in a while. Â The notion is to make the categories simpler – essentially, to pull together the blogthatwas and what I’m doing now. Â But I’m feeling a little like a history rewriter, something out of 1984. I had a grand plan, …
Not snappy. Just beautiful, and off-white, and FULL: glasses, special crockery, everyday plates. And cookbooks? Did I mention the cookbooks? And the fruit bowls. And, currently, the money box for copper coins that, one day a year, disgorges its contents into something easy to carry so that I can trade them in for a money …
A different feeling today. The sickness and the cold have been (mostly) banished. It’s back to school, back to the morning school run for one parent – and time for the other to get the house back again. Except that it’s been rather lovely, the weekend extending by two days. Once the obligatory school phone …
I’m not a fan of over-capitalisation, but on this occasion it’s deserved. For useful facts are such fun, they are indeed Useful Facts, guaranteed to brighten a (particularly grey) day. You don’t have to be a nerd to enjoy them (although now that it is cooler to consider yourself one, and broadcast that fact, I …