Harmless Drudgery

Random thoughts from a wordsmith, budding lexicographer, and 'snapper up of unconsidered trifles'.

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Sunday, 26 October 2025

The Podcast Kid

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In the matter of podcasts... <etymological-note> (a porte-manteau word that preserves in the aspic of common usage, two words neither...

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Unconsidered trifles

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I've been thinking about something known in a former (Nets&Comms) life as 'the problem of propagation delay' (the reason fo...

Thursday, 4 September 2025

'The good is oft' [but not always] 'interréd with their bones"

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In the early days of this blog, I wrote this: <prescript date="2013"> This morning in a trail for an Eartha Kitt program ne...

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

A Nobel Wheeze

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In a recent The Rest Is Politics Alastair Campbell made a suggesion that I suspect wasn't entirely serious. It seems to me though that ...

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

What do you do with a foot?

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I first heard the expression 'step foot' 20 or 30 years ago, when I dismissed it as a one-off mistake; or maybe, as I was working a...

Saturday, 9 August 2025

Infamy at Deef Castle

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MrsK and I began (and decided not to continue with the other seven parts of ...) The Count of Monte Cristo (the new one on U & Drama )...

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Of vests and waistcoats rediviva

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<inline-pps> A lot of this post disappeared in a puff of phosphorescence <mea-culpa> 'Pilot error' as engineers used t...

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@BobKLite: After a misspent youth as an aspiring folk-rock hero and freelance polymath, I became a technical writer in the IT world and then - when I finally ran out of lives, having dodged redundancy for more than 10 years (towards the end of which I coined the word 'sub-Damoclean', to refer to my own position) - a teacher, resource creator, and writer.

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