When my sister was about 13 she took part in an interesting experiment about the amount of information people can take in from different sources at once (basically a group of them sat in front of a bank of TVs showing different things and were then tested in a Crypton Factor stylee). The upshot of [...]
See Overheard
Overheard at lunchtime at work.
Woman 1: Yeah, I don’t like reading books in the first person, you know, I did this, I did that…
Woman 2: Yeah, it’s self-gratification isn’t it?
Woman 1: Yeah, I much prefer a good story….
Writing about
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ram/today4_obscurewords_20070727.ram
And about
Foyle’s Philavery - A Treasury of Unusual Words
Hooray for Christopher Foyle - a good Essex man from near Maldon - and, of course, something to do with a few big bookshops.
I was reminded of this just now (I confess I had forgotten it from this morning!) because I’m in the [...]
I am doing useful things today. I’ve started to write my handover notes - 20 pages so far and probably only a third of the way in. Who knew that my head held so much information?
My useful lunchtime contribution is going to be writing my birthday list. It has been requested - and Himself is [...]
