Aaaargh! How hard can it be to get a new computer to shut up ( Read more... )

I do try not to harp on about grammar. I really do. A lot of the time someone misses out an apostrophe and hey, it's wrong, but I knew what they meant. I know my punctuation isn't always perfect either.

But, dear BBC, you are a reputable journalistic institution. And that missing hyphen completely changed the meaning of the headline.

Child ( Read more... )

Urgh. Feeling this rubbish with a cold, for this long, ought not to be allowed ( Read more... )

If the papers are to be believed, the under-18s of this country are unregenerated ASBO-winning delinquents. This has never worried me particularly. Eve told Adam that the kids were not all right and would soon be turning to murder, thus setting a pattern for all eternity. History does not contain a single era where teenagers have been held up as a ( Read more... )

Has anyone else noticed that toiletries - and other cleaning products - seem to have gone a little mad of late ( Read more... )