What's in a title?
I watched a final episode of Line of Duty yesterday and was struck by the start of the chilly interview between Detective Chief...
Badges in the Hills
Yes, badges ... not badgers, although they may be there too. The Fovant Badge Society preserves, maintains and honours the regimental...
Hope this finds you...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that letter-writing is going (has gone) out of fashion. My generation (c.1950s) are probably the...
Colonic Irrigation?
No, not that….just a 'refresher' on the use of the colon in punctuation. Before a list This is the easy one. Most people get it right. ...
Finis
Endings are quite difficult to get right. I suppose I have read quite a few contemporary novels/thrillers over the years. The plotline...
Warming to a Theme
Andrew, my husband, and I have been working on a project which has resulted in Focus on Tisbury, a book by Martin Shallcross. It is a...
King Rat
Recently we have had them in the roof - rats, that is. A tell-tale hole by the front door points to the fact that, once they are under a...
Going back
I took my husband back to my old university last weekend for an alumni reunion. We stayed in a nice hotel in Clifton - the Victoria...
Walking the Walk
I have just been proofreading a little book about Public Paths for Pitkin. Not a book to guide you along specific walks but a general...
Short cuts
It’s funny how our brains work when we are immersed in something; we sometimes resort to a kind of ‘shorthand’ which we optimistically...
