The BlairVerseFest: contributions, please!
At last a response to my invitation to contribute to a Blairversefest: limericks, clerihews, Haiku, anything about Mr Tony… More, please! [More >>>]
Category: Miscellaneous
More news from the asylum
Some more news items tending to demonstrate that either the whole world has gone stark, staring mad, or else I have (no comments, thanks: just contribute more evidence) [More >>>]
Globalisation of cruising: some penalties for the Brits
A message to Carnival, US owners of once-British Cunard and Swan Hellenic, about some of the penalties paid by British customers when an American carnivore gobbles up a whole British species [More >>>]
Life in the asylum
The news increasingly reads like self-parody or April Fool’s Day spoofs. Some of the following examples make you want to cry, others to make you laugh. Mostly cry [More >>>]
Royal execution botched
[Picture]: Don’t panic, Ma’am: (a) it’s your 80th birthday celebration, (b) they aren’t loaded, and (c) anyway they’re only rolled umbrellas (all the real guns are with our lads in Iraq and Afghanistan).
Paragraph breaks in Comments on Ephems
Problem over line and paragraph breaks in comments on Ephems posts now solved, thanks to resident guru’s efforts and eventual success in bug-hunting [More >>>]
A week in Paris AFK
Ephems is off to Paris tomorrow for a week ‘Away From Keyboard’, or AFK, as the knowing anoraks say. No more new posts after today; no more comments on comments, however misguided (or provocative or laudatory). Ephems will spend the week basking, not in the sun (the forecast is for almost continuous showers) but in the warm glow of being awarded pride of place in last week’s Britblogs of The Week for a recent post. Thanks for that, Tim.
The Times Style Guide begs a question (or not)
The London Times Style Guide corrects one misuse of ‘beg the question’, only to impose another which, being commoner, is even worse [More >>>]
Howlers: a selection
A new collection of examples of torture inflicted on our beautiful language, often by copy editors and sub-editors rather than the writers named (and shamed) [More >>>]