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By tim
In Animals, Nature, Philosophy, Poetry, Words
Posted January 30, 2026

Word of the Week: Skint

My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Ahh that post tax [...]

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By tim
In Food, Poetry, Words
Posted June 20, 2025

Word of the Week: Poem

How many bars in a sonnet? Count them. Shall I compare thee to a Lindt choc bar? Thou art more nutty and more sugar sweet Rough truckers eat the Yorkie and the Mars And Snickers bars get stuck [...]

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By tim
In Philosophy, Poetry, Words
Posted March 7, 2025

Word of the Week: Contrary

This week I was planning to write about the word geometry but I couldn’t work out an angle. Was that a groan I just heard? Listen, this stuff doesn’t write itself, you know! Anyway, [...]

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By tim
In History, Music, Poetry, Words
Posted January 11, 2023

Word of the Week: Royalty

Among the many scraps that have broken out on these shores, one that never seems to get the air time it deserves is a historic tussle that took place over a period of three decades of the [...]

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By tim
In History, Names, Poetry, Words
Posted October 21, 2022

Word of the Week: Truss

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

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