Names

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 [...]

Behold the mayfly Beating wings in ecstasy Oh, hang on! It’s dead

To paraphrase George Jones, master of the heart-rending Country ballad, it’s been a good year for the apples. There’s nothing heart-rending in that really, unless you regard it as a [...]

I was brushing my teeth the other day when I noticed two hairs, each about an inch long, growing out of my helix. Your what?

If – and I realise this is a big ‘if’ – you’ve recently succumbed to the primeval urge to buy a chainsaw, you’ll be familiar with the catalogue of YouTube videos offering [...]