Reading time: < 1 min Common Sense from Scottish ParliamentSpotted over at ScotBlog where I commented:“Smacking (which I take to mean a light tap with an open hand) can be effective. It doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) hurt the child, it merely acts as a shock mechanism to make them understand that their actions are not acceptable. Obviously if it…
Month September 2002
Reading time: < 1 min Tuppence worthMuch has been written and said about A Rush of Blood to the Head, but I have to add my say. It’s fucking brilliant. Sorry, wish I could be a bit more sophisticated and intellectual about it. [Post written in a darkened room, with only the phosphor glow, my Sennheiser headphones, and the aforementioned…
Reading time: < 1 min To look for a needle in a hay bundleTake the occasion for the hairs.In the country of blinds, the one eyed man are kings. “This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available.…
Reading time: < 1 min CountriesI live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (of which Scotland forms a part). This is also known as the United Kingdom, or the UK. * Yet I was under the impression that the ‘United Kingdom’ was not a country. I’m not sure why, possibly I picked up something erroneous at…
Reading time: < 1 min YesterdayI decided not to post yesterday. Partly out of respect, partly out of a desire not to add my clumsy thoughts on the matter, but mainly because I’m still not sure what I want to say, what I should say. I did write down some of my thoughts about the events last year, but for…