by fwordsblog | Aug 22, 2011 | Humour
While driving through a village in Cornwall at the weekend, I saw the prime minister walking along the road. As you do. Kim, who was driving, was excited beyond belief; she was already on Cameron alert because she’d read in the papers that he was planning to visit...
by fwordsblog | Aug 17, 2011 | Words & communication
Today I completed a feature about a British exporter for an international trade magazine and tomorrow I’m writing some copy for a website designer who’s doing a groovy new site for a property company. Next week I’ll be meeting a local small businessman who likes the...
by fwordsblog | Aug 17, 2011 | Views on the news
I got really cross after reading a batch of press releases out this week. One, issued by a manufacturer of office cleaning products, listed a variety of dirty habits that are “annoying the UK’s mums”. These include not washing hands after going to the toilet, leaving...
by fwordsblog | Aug 15, 2011 | Humour
Conversation in the steam room tonight threatened for a while to be almost intelligent, with an interesting discussion about website development, but it descended into its usual levels of inanity when I mentioned I’d been to Climping at the weekend and someone asked...
by fwordsblog | Aug 13, 2011 | Words & communication
The spammers have been out in force since last I wrote on the subject of ludicrously irrelevant and badly spelled blog comments. Is there a convention on, or something? Anyway, checked my site tonight to see 73 new pending posts, most of them spam. It was a close-run...
