It is or has been alleged that the Inuit people have a large number of words for snow, presumably different types of snow. I was going to write a post about how this theory is connected, if at all, to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also known as...
I was planning to get back to blogging, honest, but life has been busy. But here are a few thoughts about the topic on everyone's mind; they're not likely to be better than anyone else's. Practically speaking, it makes absolutely no difference how much I express...
The following is unashamedly partisan. There is a well-known TV current affairs talk show in the US called “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Just before Christmas my esteemed publisher and fellow-author CS (Caz) Woolley drew my attention to a Youtube excerpt from it, in which...
Here I sit on Christmas Eve, and I haven't wrapped my presents yet, so I hope all will forgive me bringing back a post from December 2016, when I said: I would like to write a few words about Nahum Tate (1652-1715). The Wikipedia article on him...
Many people took up new hobbies during lockdown, eighteen months ago. One young man (real name Will Chirag, but now known to millions as Chigs) decided to take up baking. On Tuesday 23rd November, he amazingly reached the final of the Great British Bake-Off, which is...
It’s coming up to Christmas, and I’ll say here just once that maybe someone you know would like a lovely book about the adventures and murders that take place in Ragaris. Moving on, one of the interests of being an author, perhaps especially an independently- published...