A few years ago, Labour’s Peter Kyle made a stand against the abuse he’d been getting for his spelling errors on Twitter, which he described as ‘an unforgiving place for people with unseen challenges’. He’s dyslexic. He’d previously come to wider public attention during the long period of Commons constipation under Theresa May, when they
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Yes, you did read that correctly. And yes, I have descended below the Plimsoll Line in order to gain your attention. But stay tuned. Recently, my wife was looking online for a poem suitable for reading at a funeral, and found the well known one by Mary Frye with (almost) this title. And of course,
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My wife Jilly and I live in a small East Hertfordshire village. A bit too small, but that’s beside the point here and perhaps a topic to explore on another occasion. We are very conscious of our good fortune, and it was certainly an advantage during lockdown. One of the few things we were able
Do you suffer from earworms? Not Danny Kaye’s charming ‘Inchworm’, nor real worms of any kind, though if you do, I urge you to stop reading this straight away and send off an e-consult request (don’t wait until you can get a GP appointment). The earworms I’m talking about are those relentless little audio snippets
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