Category: Wonderings
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Rekindling an Old Flame
Well hey – look at this! That’s right. It’s quite a lot weird, but I’m back to blogging for hibu – I mean Yell – seven months after promising to never darken their doorway again. As someone who often writes an essay on a subject they’ve randomly Googled, this is a very useful place for…
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Honor’s Sketch Book
My daddy made me this out of scrap paper. I was 6 years old and mainly drew pictures of witches, animals and houses with one tree in the front garden, to the right. From that time I was never really without a book to draw and write in. I have so many still with me,…
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Faves From The Guardian Style Guide
The Guardian’s style guide is written how I would write – HAVE written – a style guide. attorney general lc, no hyphen; plural attorney generals (there will be those who tell you it should be “attorneys general” – See berks and wankers) anorexic is not a superlative of thin. Anorexia is an illness. Like schizophrenia,…
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An Excellent Word
I have thought about and used this concept many times but never had the pleasure of naming it: zeugma A figure of speech in which, typically, a single verb is used to yoke together two or more parts of a sentence with different meanings. Some examples: “The queen takes counsel and tea” (Pope). “Mr Pickwick…
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When I Need a Quick Word Fix
When I can’t really be arsed to write, or I want to write but haven’t thought about what, I do little challenges. Most often that’s Slow Writing, which you may have seen from me before. Six sentences, each of which must contain a proper noun, a question, a semi-colon or any other GCSE English titbit.…
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