We were peppered with sweat and sand as the sun set on another perfect summer’s day. Proudly we stepped back to admire our work. A castle of sand patterned with moats, turrets, windows and a cavalcade of towers casting eerie shadows – it was a tribute to our...
Killing two birds with one stone. Two peas in a pod. Two of a kind. Two-faced. Two-cents-worth. The list goes on and on of idioms about the word two. I constantly have to look up the meaning of mathematical terms for my kids (don’t know why they’re not...
The way you write for business needs to change. Pompous is out, plain speaking is in. That’s the long and short of it. I know, some of you may have been writing the same way you were taught at school and university – and it’s worked perfectly well, thank...
Sometimes you just know. There was that feeling when you met. Simpatico. The air was sizzling hot. You could read each other’s minds. You’d finish each other’s sentences. They could be the one. Is it right – should you want them so much, this soon? The...
When was the last time you read something – say an ad in a magazine, a few pages of a website, a Facebook page or even a billboard – and have been busting to go and do something about it? Hardly ever, probably. Most of you will glance at it, maybe read it and...
