A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Is marmalade made from fruit or flowers? With a name like Rose’s, this famous brand may be confusing its customers. But that’s what happens in the English-speaking world, confusion is sometimes the norm. I read an article a while back about an upcoming conflict between Japan in the Blue corner and China in the Red…
August 2023 saw the 60th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery in the UK. The robbery took place on the 8th August 1963 and involved a gang holding up a Royal Mail train on a journey from Glasgow to London. The train was carrying sacks of paper money collected at various stations on route. At…
Once upon a time I worked in an Oast House… “What’s an oast house?” I hear you ask. It’s a place used for drying hops, which is a main ingredient in the production of beer. It’s what gives beer its distinctive flavour and is quite smelly when picked from the vine like plant which grows…
Anyone watching Doctor Who would be forgiven for thinking it would be a really cool thing to travel through time and space. After all, who wouldn’t like to see what their family and friends get up to in the future. Or even what the family were like in the past. You could also be forgiven…
Brown snakes on the Pacific Island of Guam are so much out of control, causing problems for the local bird population, i.e., eating the birds, and even causing power outages, that the authorities have employed parachuting Ninja Mice to hold back the invasion. Okay, so I’ve stretched the story a bit, they are not Ninja…
I got hooked on writing at an early age, around eight or nine years old I seem to remember. I can still picture my English book, it had a blue cover, where we pupils would write our classic stories. I remember drafting my first story set in period in the mid 1990s but based on…
Grapes It’s what you are supposed to do, isn’t it? Someone you know is ill and, in the hospital, you buy them some flowers and a bag of grapes. That’s right, isn’t it? Well, that’s what I did. I gave a friend a bag of grapes. Nice, sweet black ones, nothing sinister in that… …
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