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ms_well.words: McKean’s law – my new motto
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Thursday, 15 January 2009. McKean’s law – my new motto. I hadn’t heard of Erin McKean. Until this morning, but she’s clearly a woman after my own heart:. 8220;Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.”. I’ve added her lexicography blog. To my Blogroll, to accompany that of our home-grown wordmeister, David Crystal. Boom, boom (… read à la* Basil Brush). View my complete profile.
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ms_well.words: Ding dong bell; put Libby down the well
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Wednesday, 14 January 2009. Ding dong bell; put Libby down the well. It really is about time Libby Purves got a researcher assistant. Every single week she manages to upset one of her guests on Midweek. Radio 4, Weds at 9am and repeated at 9.30pm). Today her target fought back. How he restrained himself from bopping her on the head with one of his hand-bells, I’ll never know. The blurb for this week’s show says:. For a 23-year-old to be commissioned by Cam...
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ms_well.words: August 2008
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Thursday, 28 August 2008. Police, politicians and paintings. Sometimes the juxtaposition of news items simply can't be ignored. A snippet on Today. Radio 4) this morning caught my attention: A couple in Cambridgeshire were being burgled, and phoned 999, only to get a text message from the local police. Instead of an actual Bobby. Nicholas Penny said that buying the pix would "end decades of anxiety about them being sold overseas". Doesn't the man reali...
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ms_well.words: December 2008
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Saturday, 27 December 2008. Why I can no longer phone home. Welcome to the bereavement counsellor’s chair. That’s you in the chair, and me the bereaved … so if you’re not ready to be subsumed by my gloomy news, “look away now”. My mother died of a sudden heart attack on Monday 8 December, at about 2:20 in the afternoon. I howled with laughter, and with sadness. My mum was a fan of Peter Kaye, and I was half tempted to have Is this the way to Amarillo?
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ms_well.words: A cure for Blue Monday
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Monday, 19 January 2009. A cure for Blue Monday. Today is, apparently, the most depressing day of the year. So says the BBC online news. With a witty idea from The Optimists Society), but there’s also an item on this phenomenon in last week’s New Scientist. However, there are two reasons to be cheerful:. According to New Scientist's. 8220;A cup of tea, a snack, a chat. You’ll feel better after that! Posted by ms well.words. Labels: lessons in life.
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ms_well.words: January 2009
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Random thoughts from a writer/editor's desk-top. Monday, 19 January 2009. A cure for Blue Monday. Today is, apparently, the most depressing day of the year. So says the BBC online news. With a witty idea from The Optimists Society), but there’s also an item on this phenomenon in last week’s New Scientist. However, there are two reasons to be cheerful:. According to New Scientist's. 8220;A cup of tea, a snack, a chat. You’ll feel better after that! Posted by ms well.words. Labels: lessons in life. My coll...
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