She’s sat motionless at the bottom of the stairs. She has her back to us, fur lined hood up over her head; not moving. Love, you alright? It is 10.30 on a Sunday morning and me and my other half are off to the climbing wall.She’s not moving, sitting on the bottom step, just outside […]
…is the word I learnt yesterday. It refers to a journalist who is labouring under the misapprehension that he or she is also an academic. One of the people on my team is working with a writer who she described thus. I, myself, thought it was rather funny.
Quark (no, I have not stepped on the toe of a rather posh, Eton educated duck, but am starting a sentence about the software, beloved of all designers) is a bit annoying. Picture the scene, I am on my first day of work experience, after a morning of heaving dusty books from one place to […]
So the MA works looms ahead, I have made a few darting nervous forays, nibbling at the edges, doing a bit of that, and a bit of this, not making much progress with anything. It is the classic mistake, I know I need to break it down into manageable chunks but I keep thinking well […]
I’m doing some research for an article on motion sickness and have found the delightful and helpful http://www.chuckiebags.com I’m sure you can guess what their product is for. I wonder how long it took them to come up with their company name. I imagine the founding members of the company sitting around the kitchen table […]
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