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Grocer's Apostrophe Strikes the Motor Trade
on May 11, 2006...
Second Honeymoon — book review
on Apr 3, 2006Joanna Trollope has added another digestible item to her Aga oeuvre with Second Honeymoon: a title that remains ironic up to the distinctly Shakespearean denouement. Issues of a second-wind career emerge with a vengeance for resting actress Edie Boyd...
The Lovely Bones — book review
on Mar 22, 2006This is a crime thriller, a psychological drama and a fantasy woven into a fascinating texture set in suburban America circa 1973. It combines violence, sexual passion and the agony of grief that ultimately becomes reconciliation. As a novel, it depe...
The Superhighway - welcome to Cone City
on Mar 21, 2006One kind of literacy that's required by every UK motorist is that of UK road signs. Without them we'd be lost. Some of us are lost because of them! I happen to hold an intuitive belief that men have an inbuilt compass. 'I always know which way I'm po...
Politics and Language
on Mar 20, 2006Text massaging - lubrication please, not persecutionHow is it that everyone who's not a teacher expresses absolute disgust at the language of text-messaging and at the fact that youngsters are using it to - wait for it - communicate? I think I know...