Wake up. Throbbing pain. World shimmering, the edges creepy-crawling. Cam's alarm like a truck reversing onto my head. Migraine. Cameron is wonderful. Earlier this year, when I had gastro, he took time off work to look after Ashleigh (and, let's ...
Archives for August 2011
The plural of octopus is…
I am a word nut. I love words. I live for words. I'm not too proud to say that I'm quite proud of my knowledge of many things linguistic. Etymology included. So I used to tell anyone and everyone who'd listen that the plural of octopus, given that ...
You have to make things happen
I've been toying with the idea of starting a blog for a while. For about a year, in fact. What's taken so long? I'm just too good at playing my own devil's advocate, and have ummed and aahed about how this blog would be received. 'Oh great, another ...