Best epithet ever, in reference to someone beautiful and charismatic: "[thou art a] Disturber of Integrity." From: Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. It's a book full of descriptions and language that'll just have you grinning or sniggering to yourself, and well worth a read if you don't mind getting funny looks from people on trains ( Read more... )

There was a dedicated campaign by the spiders of Perth (or one very resourceful individual) to facehug me whenever I went walking at night. Walking along and enjoying the night is much less fun when it's punctuated by the discovery of a new resident on your glasses, and the subsequent attempt to find your flicked-away glasses in the dark without ( Read more... )