Reading time: < 1 min Quiet, relaxing weekend. Kicked off on Friday with a swim and a sauna before dropping my sister off at the airport for her holiday. Saturday, coffee at Crema, some more window shopping, then dinner at home followed by ‘Ali’. Will Smith was OK, but the story was a bit.. fast? Seemed to zip past incidents…
Reading time: < 1 min 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,…
Reading time: < 1 min Tom turns thirty.
Reading time: < 1 min 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.…
Reading time: < 1 min “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…
Reading time: < 1 min 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…