*Warning: contains double entendres Alright, stop tittering at the back. There’s nothing amusing about the word chit, any more than there is about other everyday gardening terms, such as [...]
This Wednesday a cry came out of a corner of the office, “It’s the first day of Spring!” To which we replied, “Spring doesn’t take a capital letter, unless [...]
The Eskimos have 50 words for it; we have but one: snow, derived from the Old English ‘snaw’. And that, you would think, should rule out any ambiguity about a forecast of ‘heavy [...]
Tis the season of the satsuma, that Christmassy citrus delight that’s so easy to peel and fills the room with what 5th-century Chinese poet Liu Hsun described as a “fragrant mist”.
“I talk to the trees but they don’t listen to me.” So sang Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. It was the song that both began and ended his singing career, an optimistic little [...]
