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Pick up any magazine with a few feature articles in it and play “spot the cliché“. We all use clichés and often without noticing them; they all too easily pass into professional copy. Is this sloppy writing or a stylistic conformity to idiom? Either way, here’s an exercise to hone your writerly chops: Get your [...]
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Thanks to Akismet, spam comments on this blog are swiftly detected and dealt with but I do find some of them amusing. It’s a nice way to kick back for a couple of minutes and have a giggle: Kris writes: I am doing research for my college thesis, thanks for your excellent points, now I [...]
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Hatherleigh, in the heart of Devon, lays claim to being the smallest town in the county and it is a proper “market town”. Not many towns with a market heritage can own that title in the present tense but on at least two days a week this is an important commercial hub for the locality. [...]
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Watching my dog and how she thinks and acts, I feel a bit jealous at times, she’s got some stuff nailed down that I have been struggling with for years.
Filed under: Miscellanea, Natural Living | Tagged: Humour, Lifestyle, Pets | 3 Comments »
Thanks to Google Insight I am able to reassure readers that Good continues to prevail over Evil. Internet users in Lesotho appear to be showing the most interest in “Good”, and the rising star in the “good search” war is someone called “Mister Good”.
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Edward Monkton appears to have turned scribbling and doodling into a private industry. I have admiration for someone who can make a living out of not drawing very well.
Filed under: Contemporary Culture, Mental Health, Writing | Tagged: Arts, Humour | 3 Comments »
