I called a friend up the other day, and he had set himself the challenge of reading 24 books in a year. I think it’s an excellent challenge, as it is neither daunting, nor unaspiring. I’ll be following his progress on Good Reads, and wish him luck.

Thank you for those who wrote in to share some of their favourite sayings. Here are three that I thought were worth sharing: Blind Freddy could have told you that: Apparently this is a fairly common idiom in Australia, but I don’t think I have ever heard it used bar the person who messaged me,…

Thank you to everyone who shared their favourite sayings, it was great to hear from you all, and I’ll get back to you all by tomorrow if I haven’t already. In fact, I might feature a few of them tomorrow. My second saying that I have created, and would love to see catch on, is…

Most idioms are common, largely because language needs to be shared to be valuable. We all understand the saying “shag on a rock”, whereas “pidgeon on a boulder” would only be greeted with some confused stares. However, we all have personal sayings that we think are clever or useful, but just haven’t caught on, yet….

It’s FA Cup weekend, and while I didn’t catch any games, I did enjoy a few highlights in the late afternoon. For those who don’t know, the FA Cup is an English soccer/football knockout tournament open to every club in the country. This week was the Third Round, the round when the Big Dogs enter…

Note: Yesterday I referred to a meal as raging. What I meant to say was ragù, and for those who wonder, yes, it was delicious. A writer I follow on Substack wrote about how he predicted an increased trend of “arranged marriages” in the US over the coming years. He was careful to define what…