April 25, 2016
It was on one of our occasional shopping trips when I heard my daughter giggle and felt the tug on my arm as she dragged me across the shop. “Look Mum!” she exclaimed, a smirk on […]
April 14, 2016
You might have seen the adverts for a well-known odour neutraliser using the term “nose blind”, but I’d like to offer up another phenomenon seen the world over – word blind. It’s an affliction we will […]
March 2, 2016
Like me you probably remember sitting in the classroom learning some of the “rules” of the English language. Apostrophes are to show possession or missing letters. Full stops are a long pause when reading and are […]
January 15, 2016
When I was expecting our first child my mum (who was eagerly anticipating the arrival of her first grandchild) would read me names from the obituaries in the local paper, based on the theory that the […]