Many moons ago, when we were young and free and we used to go for drinks in random locations wherever the car of whoever was driving came to rest, we found ourselves in an upstairs bar in [...]
I arrived on a video call this week in the middle of a discussion about the meaning of ‘afternoon’. Sean, quite reasonably, was saying he’d always interpreted it to mean the [...]
Here’s a word that has fallen from grace somewhat in recent years. When I was a lad back in the 70s, the idea of personal grooming for blokes was as alien as straight trousers and 24 hour [...]
Every day’s a school day, as the saying goes, and it’s a wonderful privilege of being alive that you’re never too old to learn. Facts that seem obvious to some people from a [...]
Weird word weird. It breaks the ‘i before e except after c’ rule for a start. And here’s a peculiar thing. Since the end of the Seventies, the word ‘weird’ has seen [...]
