… I have to remove another set of unnecessary quotation marks from a perfectly acceptable word used in a perfectly ordinary context the rivers of Hampshire will run red with the blood of [...]
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I did the unthinkable today. I gave away all my books. These are books I have been collecting for around 15 years – they include my university textbooks, my collections of Scottish literature and philosophy classics, detective novels, autobiographies of popstars and politicians, guidebooks to countries I have visited and might conceivably still visit, self-help books, how-to [...] As of today I have just under a week left in my job. Next weekend I’ll be packing up all my stuff and doing the long drive back up Britain to the land of the haggis toastie and salt n’ sauce. I’ve only been living in England for five and a half months, and it’s safe to [...] Work is throwing some exciting things at me: I’ve been commissioned to write a report on the global market for online TEFL materials – right up my street, and it was very flattering to be called an expert on the subject. Then there is the possibility of working full time on some business English textbooks, or [...] It’s not often that my heart goes out to workers in the City. Having mingled with them over the years in London, and watched some of their worst excesses, I can say that they are not a likely group of folk to be drawing my sympathy. However, my heart really does go out to all those [...] My mother just informed me that she has been urinated on by a frog. Picture by rcolonna; found on Flickr. Apologies for the pig (frog) Latin. In other news, I have just become aunt to a blue kitten. Congratulations Patroclus and Blue Cat! [...] An interview with writer James Frey in this morning’s Guardian has irked me somewhat; not because I think Frey deserved all the flak he received for fabricating parts of his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, but because there are other ‘writers’ out there getting away with far worse. As far as I can make out, Frey’s worst [...] I can’t believe I’ve managed to reach the age of thirty without anyone telling me what mensuration is. Things your mother never [...] The magnificent word ‘wow‘ is derived from the Scots ‘wow’. Who knew? But try saying it out loud in your best Glaswegian twang and you’ll soon see that it must be true. Lesser-known Scottish Delights [...] |
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