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 [...]
Writing about I for India
(Yes, I do listen to far too much Radio 4 - picked this up from Front Row, it sounds like a wonderful piece of social history.)
When Indian doctor Yash Pal Suri arrived in England in 1965, the very first thing he did was to buy two Super 8 cameras, two projectors [...]
Writing about
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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 [...]
