Coffee Grounds for Divorce …
10
Feb
… grounds too for mariticide
Category Archives: life
Ecocide: the Mullah Nasruddin speaks!
4
Feb
ONE MORNING in the summer of 2007 saw me in my daughter’s Edinburgh flat, taking in the wisdoms of Sir Jonathan Porritt as set out in an Independent piece on saving the environment. The plain truth, he was giving me … Read More »
Pullman Coaches on Oxford Comma
29
Jan
It’s a tale of two Philips. Oxford commas, not to be confused with learned lepidopterans, also come in handy when list items house subclauses which may themselves contain the conjunctives and or or: Oxford Colleges include Magdalen, ‘Maudlin’ to the … Read More »
It’s a flying shame!
20
Jan
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
Cui bono?
15
Jan
Sarcasm on social media
12
Jan
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *
Stealing the sun
8
Jan
Caught red handed by his photographer wife as two bemused canines look on, a man in the pay of Vladimir Putin – the Guardian’s Luke Harding has confirmed this – brazenly snatches the sun from an evening sky at the … Read More »
Thieves take note
23
Dec
Spied on the M1 yesterday.
Waiting for Goddard’s
19
Dec
Purchased from local charity shop four days ago: one set of fish eaters; blades and forks, six of each, bunched and banded but not boxed. Lack of box aside, there’s an obvious problem. These are at the dingy end of … Read More »
Attenborough today
16
Dec