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Stop talking rubbish and mangling our language

May 9, 2016 By Ellen

River Clyde at dusk

If you’re not careful, there’s potench for murder It’s funny how they say that the red mist descends. In my case, it rises, boiling up from the pit of somewhere dark until everything is fury. This week it was a chirpy PR person’s query about whether or not the thing he had just sent me […]

Filed Under: language, other things I have learned, rant Tagged With: grammar, humour, in my life, language, on my mind, rant, things I've learned

Christmas shouldn’t be this difficult

December 16, 2014 By Ellen

Little faces lit up with joy, families coming together over good food and laughter and a few days off the treadmill. The most wonderful time of the year. Why then are so many people looking stressed and knackered? Normally calm children are barely making it to bedtime without a fit of sobbing and minutes are […]

Filed Under: budget, Christmas, commercialisation, expectation, gifts, money, pressure, rant, stress, tension

344/365 Christmas jumpers – you can’t make me wear one

December 11, 2013 By Ellen

What is it with the Christmas jumpers? Every shop is packed with deliberately nasty garments emblazoned with red-faced fat men or horned animals. They don’t suit anybody, make you sweat and prickle your skin. They are a joke and the thing about jokes is you’re not supposed to take them seriously. This year festive knitwear […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, Christmas, christmas jumper, rant

203/365 I’m not your f***ing darling

July 22, 2013 By Ellen

I saw him coming, bouncing on the soles of his trainers like an athlete at the track, chest puffed out, pounding up the path to the door. Leaflets in his hand, logo on his shirt. Bing-bong. Sigh. “Good afternoon, my darling,” He actually said that. “My darling.” I just looked at him. He must have mistaken cold contempt for interest […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, patronising., rant, sexist

Bloggers, please remember that PRs and SEO are people too…

July 20, 2013 By Ellen

In people, spiky isn’t this cute (Adam Foster Codefor via Flickr) Bloggers are, in the main, the most welcoming, kindest, most generous bunch of people you could ever hope to meet – online or off. It’s one of the main, marvellous, things about blogging.    And it’s why I’m moved to write this post.    […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, bloggers, blogging, PRs, rant, SEO

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