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The Thing About Migraines

Sometimes I wonder if that sharp pain in my brain, the kind leavetaking of a departing migraine*, is actually the onset of a haemorrhage. Shortly after leaving primary school and heading to the big school (circa 400 pupils), one of…

Ghost Dates

Does anyone else collect ghost dates? I don’t mean literal potentially-romantic meetings with the corporeally dispossessed, or anything to do with ghosting (actually, I have a draft of a potential post on just this subject, perhaps I should polish and…

Forgetting Favicons

Up until this morning, my laptop browser (I currently use Opera) had a neat little bookmarks bar, featuring the favicons of my most-used sites. No words, no folders, just tiny, pretty sigils. I liked this, and still do, but I…

On Learning English

I see in the news that Cameron has announced he intends to make immigrants and, particularly, those on spousal visas, learn English. Well, this is a fantastic idea, a great piece of news — after all, we all want to…