Hay fever? Hej, fever! (Revisited)
Hay fever? Hej fever! A not entirely frivolous investigation of the meaning and origins of hay fever and other, older related terms in English, Swedish and other languages.
Month: April 2014
Computers, and my first in particular
In which I am interviewed about my experience of computers in education and wax lyrical about memories of my first Amstrad.
Black boxes – a meditation on memory and loss
A meditation: on the subject of black boxes, real and metaphorical, and on memory and loss and drowning in a sea of sound.
What is your earliest memory? This is mine.
This is my earliest memory – a memory of my father – together with a poem I’ve put it into. What is your earliest memory?
What’s in a name? On finding the right name
Finding the right name for your fictional character is important. Giving a character an exotic name can help, but there are traps for the unwary.