Zagreb
Just back from a whirlwind trip to Zagreb, where I spent about a year and a half as a student back in 1982-1984. I’ve wanted to go back ever since…
Alzheimer’s and writing style
Via the terrific Its Ablaut Time linguistics blog, a report by Mark Liberman on Writing Style & Dementia, about a fascinating study of the capacity for stuff that you wrote…
Dipsy discovers music
Now that Dipsy & Lala have passed their 1st birthday (on 11th April) and have discovered Tuna Imperial (now there’s a ballet Ashton should have choreographed) it seems that they…
Telescopic squeegees
One of the side-effects of being an obsessive web-searcher is that after a while, you find it ever easier to second-guess manufacturers’ names for things that before you would have…
Musicking and the Lowry Centre
Thoroughly enjoying Christopher Small’s book Musicking. “Every building” he says, “from the tiniest hut to the biggest airport terminal, is designed and built to house some aspect of human behaviour…
Cheek by Jowell
The Tessa Jowell story gets curiouser and curiouser: “Tony Blair said she had not been “in breach” of the ministers’ code of conduct as her husband did not tell her…