The QI Elves on twitter (@qikipedia) made my day recently.Back in the earliest days of this blog, I confessed a long-held fear of mine. Not of something understandable, like heights, or spiders. Or snakes. Or the idea of Eddie McGuire one day ...
Green Eggs and Ham has just 50 words in it
50 unique words, that is.SourceTheodor Seuss Geisel was challenged by his publisher, who bet that he couldn't create a children's story, let alone an engaging and popular one, using 50 words or fewer.In 1960, Geisel rose to the ...
The fifth wedding anniversary is all about wood
Teehee, giggle, snort. Perhaps I should be writing a different lesson today: 'I have a juvenile sense of humour'.Cameron and I are approaching our fifth wedding anniversary. For the first two years, we made a sterling effort to buy each other ...
Before jets, jet lag was known as…
Boat lag!I don't know why, but this little piece of trivia makes me smile. ...
Roses are red, violets are… violet
I've never given it much thought. Roses are red, violets are blue, and if you don't like it, nuts to you!But they're not. Violets are quite clearly, obviously, violet. In fact, the word for the colour was taken from the word for the ...