Here’s a story that might have escaped your attention. Back in 2019 a company called Trelleborg Sealing Solutions got together with students at Tewkesbury School to make the world’s [...]
This week’s word is dedicated to Andy Rourke, craftsman of the bass guitar, who died today at the terribly premature age of 59. Rourke was a member of The Smiths, probably the most Marmite [...]
I wonder if this has ever happened to you. My old friend and workmate, Ash, was flying in to Heathrow from Australia, where he now lives, and I was going to meet him at the airport as a surprise. [...]
I received a lovely message from my friend Paul this week, asking if I could expand on the theories I expounded in last week’s essay on Milk. He phrased it more succinctly than that. He [...]
Do you ever ask yourself what’s the plural of January? I did today and it’s been bugging me ever since. You might wonder why anyone would want to pluralise January. Isn’t one [...]
