I wonder if this has ever happened to you. My old friend and workmate, Ash, was flying in to Heathrow from Australia, where he now lives, and I was going to meet him at the airport as a surprise. [...]
“At last!” you may be thinking, “the old hack’s finally got some self-awareness.” But no, I want to examine a more positive definition of the word [...]
There are certain words, the use (or overuse) of which I’m finding increasingly unacceptable – ‘unacceptable’ being a prime example. A bruised banana from the market stall is [...]
You might not have noticed but there are certain rules I try to apply when I write Word of the Week. One is never to pretend to know about Greek literature, unless you can make it really [...]
I learnt today that a pitchfork isn’t called a pitchfork because you use it to pitch hay onto a hay cart, it’s called a pitchfork because it’s pointy and you poke it into the [...]
