There’s a lot of fear about these days. Whether there’s more fear about these days than there was in palaeolithic days is difficult to say, especially if you suffer from [...]
The long, dark nights are drawing in, the wind is whipping up a storm, the trees are abandoning their leaves like gnarled MPs and their beliefs and as we pick our merry way down the debris strewn [...]
Blah blah blah. Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb. Don’t worry, I haven’t become Boris Johnson’s speechwriter. But doesn’t it strike you as odd that this leafy, manure loving [...]
For any newcomers who have noticed that last week’s word was Pencil and assumed that there is some sort of alphabetical pattern to Word of the Week, let me disabuse you of that notion [...]
Do you ever look at your pencil and wonder, “How on Earth were you made?” Perhaps you don’t have a pencil, but that’s unlikely, given that there are 14 billion made every [...]
