Category: Langwidge
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My Favourite Words
I love words, and find anyone who doesn’t uniquely odd. There’s something delicious about rolling the word ‘loquacious’ around your mouth, like cleansing the palette with a Sprite after a chomp on a tasty burger. So, for your delectation, here’s a list of some of my favourite words. Bumface (noun): Most people, meant in a…
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The Smart of All Talk
Just got back from lunch with a Cambridge-based astronaut, a woman who gave up being an assassin in order to start her own plumbing business, and Peter Sissons. Needless to say, we had nothing to talk about. It’s at times like this that I always wish I had a bag full of small talk ideas…
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Review Quotes For you
Everyone needs a good review quote to slap across their promotional material, put on the cover of a book, or tattoo to their teeth for when they smile at the Queen. So here are some pull quotes I’ve written, just for you. Help yourselves. “Funnier than a singing bush.” “A story that tears you apart…
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Thought Vomit #106: ft. That Ball Is Gone
I’m a bit of a closet baseball fan. It’s insomnia driven of course, so late nights can easily be filled with marathon games, and Twitter seems designed specifically for intra-innings updates. But I realised last night, what it is specifically that I like; the language. Very few sports lend themselves to the spoken word, a…
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Thought Vomit #57: ft. A Cryptic Crossword
Cryptic crosswords baffle me. I would very much like to be good at them, and occasionally I sit down with a pen and a cup of tea, cradling the back page of The Times on my knee, and proceed to spend half an hour doodling on it. Every now and then I’ll get one, which…
