July 2002
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Two pence
This is all a bit redundant now, but in case you hadn’t noticed (and I’m guessing that this isn’t the only blog/journal/funny little site that you read) the Guardian newspaper which, as Vaughan states, is a fine newspaper indeed, is running a competition to find the Best British Blog. I’d post a link to it,…
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Writing Style
Believe it or not, and judging by the casual way I throw punctuation around on here I wouldn’t choose to believe me either, my job requires a high degree of accuracy when it comes to punctuation and grammar et al. I’ve just been going over our internal Writing Style guidelines, and doing a little research.…
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Bert and Ernie
“Hey Bert” “Hey Ernie” The odd couple of Sesame Street. Are they gay? Are they just close friends? As a medium devised to educate children in both basic arithmetic and language, and social awareness, Sesame Street has been the model for many similar shows throughout the world and, typically, if the handling of the introduction…
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So you wanna be a writer?
Taking some previous advice, I didn’t take a mouthful of coffee before reading the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2002 Results. Just as well really, as I’m fed up choking on my coffee. The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is an international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory if not the reputation of Victorian novelist Edward George…
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Middle-classless
We’re not a progressive nation, are we? David Aaronovitch is a regular read of mine, we seem to have a similar outlook on many things, and again he pegs what I want to say much better than I could and with much better research, but you wouldn’t expect much less from a professional journalist, would…
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Monday morning (slight return)
Saturday was spent in IKEA and B&Q and other places of ill repute, spending money we don’t have, except for once we didn’t actually spend it, merely noted down what we wanted to buy and then sat in amazement when we got home when we realised we would need £2k to get what we want.…