I had a very strange dream last night. Now that is a phrase that can make the most interested and saintly reader loose the will to live, but this one was really weird and I can tell you about it quickly, so please bear with me if you will. I dreamt I got engaged to […]

There is something about discussions on the topic of vaginas, in sober serious society which causes and creates the uncontrollable desire to snigger. I mean really, what sort of a feminist am I. Juvenile? Yes. Silly? Without doubt. Understandable? Most definitely. One of my modules, Creative Non-fiction, started with a trawl around the room, everyone […]

We learnt a number of rhetorical devices at the end of last term, but after some extensive googling I have found some alternative definitions. Epistrophe – A particular type of catastrophe that involves pissing yourself.e.g. ‘One man with wet pants, knows the woes of a thousand with wet pants.’ Anadiplosis – A herbivore dinosaur with […]

On the eight hour journey (god blast engineering works on Sundays) from Cornwall to Home, we were joined at Newton Abbot by an interesting pair. I didn’t see them at first, what alerted me to their presence was smell. Smell that wafted back from their table to ours like an evil Bisto wisp, an acrid […]

On Saturday, I bought my first surfboard. I went to Newquay with my amigo and bought a seven foot six mini-mal. It has four blue stripes running from tip to tale a blue star right about where I have to put my face. It is beautiful. So this weekend in relatively mild January weather I […]