William Shakespeare, whose birthday is celebrated today, had more influence on the English language than anyone else before or since. He’s the man...
We’ve published a book!
Crowded Platforms and Window Seats is about the joys and occasional mishaps of interrailing. Interrailing is a ticket that allows you to travel by...
Sentences are getting shorter
I’ve changed my mind. I always used to tell people that the maximum number of words in a sentence should be 30. It was what I was taught when I...
How do you spell Halloween?
Tonight, kids up and down the country will be dressing up as witches, putting on a scary mask and frightening the life out the locals at...