"Murder the damned
thing!" My voice hammered at the walls of our flat like a drum at an
execution.
The
creature was a spawn of hell, a black scourge brooding against the cream-white
fibreglass. People bathe in
that. My crooked smile warped
into a grimace. That cockroach
has to die.
"I
can't find the fly swat, or the spray," Douglas announced.
His news spelled doom for...
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
The Rulebook for Facebook. Ten things you should never do.
It's something of a virtual garden,
this Facebook. Out of the soil we call newsfeed grows fruits, vegetables, flowers
and weeds. The weeds are villains, as you will know, strangling every flower of
life and substance, capturing every fruit beneath stem and sprout. I try to
hide them myself, but the task is no lasting cure, and the routine is growing ever more onerous. Perhaps I should quit this...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Five words that aren't words but should be. Start saying them.
This list was harder to think up than I anticipated, and not because the non-words are used so scarcely that I'd almost forgotten about them. Anna, a friend who can vouch for me that these non-words should be words, put it nicely when she said,
"The problem is we use them so normal-like, that they aren't stored in our heads as weirdly words."
Just so; I hope they become stored in your heads as...
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Words that aren't words. Stop using them.
I
have put together a list of eight words that, quite simply, aren't
words. If you say/write them, you should probably stop. Some are spoken correctly but spelled horrendously, while others on paper look fine, but when spoken, make the earth cringe.
(Yes, every time you misspeak a word, somewhere, there's
an earthquake).
It
would be a top ten, but the highest ranking, 'yous' and 'totes', have...
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