Untitled, by anonymous

She woke me up again this morning, so early it was really still late at night. She is surprisingly heavy-footed for such a small child as she runs backwards and forwards above my head, trailing giggles. On a good day, that’s all she does, run and giggle, and I can pretend to myself that that’s…

A plurality of plurals

How do you make a word into a plural in English? Plurals are categorised as either regular – i.e. they follow an agreed set of rules – or irregular – i.e. go their own way. This being English, though, even regular plurals aren’t always that regular! Regular plurals By far the most common way to…

Fire! (Or more pointless grammatical pedantry)

Over the past few months of unemployment I have had the chance to rediscover my old mild obsession with the computer game SimCity. There is something quietly satisfying about watching thousands of tiny, virtual people working, playing, and generally living their best lives, at least until zombies devour them or giant lizards tread on them.…

Panic!

Doing something new, like starting your own business, is intimidating enough for anyone. If you suffer from mental health problems, though, it can quite literally be a nightmare. After posting yesterday that I needed to register with HMRC and the ICO, I spent last night having recurrent anxiety dreams about opening web pages only to…