This week I’ve spent a lot of time singing Rip It Up by Orange Juice, a catchy little number you may remember from the 80s, which includes the following: You know me I’m acting dumb [...]
Do you ever talk to yourself? Ever have those conversations where you get quite cross with yourself? To the point where you’re not sure which part of you is entitled to be cross and which [...]
The human body is a phenomenal thing. I’m not just talking about mine – yours probably is too. But there are certain functions that still need explaining.
My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Ahh that post tax [...]
This week I was planning to write about the word geometry but I couldn’t work out an angle. Was that a groan I just heard? Listen, this stuff doesn’t write itself, you know! Anyway, [...]