Harmless Drudgery

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

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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

The Times it is a-changing

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Some time in early Spring 1966 The Times dropped a bombshell. Since the year dot (and in the case of The Times this is a pretty remote dot ...

Saturday, 27 September 2014

On the tip of his...you know, flappy thing

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The morning after Ed Milliband's speech to the party conference, according to various BBC news reports, a ' souvenir copy' was...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Respighi and the Doppler Effect

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This morning on Radio 3 I caught a snatch of Respighi's Pines of Rome , specifically the fourth movement, Pini della Via Appia , which ...

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Bercow in Toyland

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One of the BBC news programmes on Monday last featured a gloriously mixed metaphor that conjured up a picture of someobody – I can't...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Money down the drain - DRAIN?

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My attention was grabbed today [to be honest, it didn't take that much grabbing] by this tweet: She starts with an interesting piec...

Monday, 11 August 2014

To lose ONE teacher is an anecdote, but...

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How many anecdotes add up to a trend? This article has added to the feelings of... despair [no, that's not an exaggeration] that I voi...

Sunday, 27 July 2014

The Thoughts of Chairman Bigdork

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Wes Bigd... sorry, Brett Wigdortz OBE has an impressive string of achievements to his name, strangely omitting a business school (which was...

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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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