- Happy 250 weeks since I decided to start weekly blogging.
- I ran a spell checker over all of my previous posts and fixed myriad typos. Myriad!
- I learnt a lot of facts about platypodes at the department summer rounders game this week.
- Plural of platypus is platypuses or, strictly, platypodes. That’s not a fact about platypuses but language.
- Platypodes have venemous spurs on their legs
- They are mammals but they lay eggs
- They glow under UV light
- Nobody was good enough at Googling to tell us if they had periods.
- Enough fact shitting!
- I had a dream that I was made head girl. What could it all mean.
- I was perusing the FT style-guide the other day. It is full of gems, but today I came across:
cynic A cynic is someone who takes a pessimistic view of human motives and actions, who believes the worst about people or the outcome of events; a sceptic is someone who asserts nothing positively and doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs, who mistrusts people, ideas etc, in general. Let us preserve the distinction.
- LET US PRESERVE THE DISTINCTION.
- It rained!