The conventional wisdom says that you should write like you speak. And it’s true – you should. As long as you don’t ramble, repeat yourself (at least not too much) or get to0 informal, slangy or inappropriate. The idea is […]

Yes, yes,  I know that the best blogs, the ones written by people with Very Big Megaphones standing on Very Big Soapboxes have ‘Top 10 ways to write lists of Top 10 lists’ and so on. But if there’s a […]

It’s been all work and no play here in the UK over the last couple of months. We’ve had a slew of ‘bank holidays’: a term that confuses foreigners, even English speakers, but seems obvious to locals. The expression originates […]

As the super-injunction row rumbles on here in the UK, you could be forgiven for wondering why the celebs even bother. When an English court orders Calif0rnia-based Twitter to hand over the personal details of the injunction-busters, there’s a definite […]

Are you a Big Picture person? I’m sure you are. So am I. In fact, in this age of blue-sky thinking and outside-the-box paradigm shifts,  it’s difficult when we see a passing bandwagon to resist the temptation to jump right […]