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#27 🥸 Grouchy frames, wilful stubbornness and a centenary event 💯

What’s in the box? * New post on stubbornness, clarity and glasses frames 👓 * Frame of the week – the optimal eyewear 🥸 * Mysteries of what people like – the top posts, as voted by your eyeballs 👁️ * So close to a centenary update for members – help needed 🙏 * The immortality of newsletters and email 📧

Richard Allardice Nov 17, 2021

#26 🔬 The smallness of a small house, and the goings-on inside 🏠

What’s in the box? 📦 * Real quick – some responses to newsletter #25 💛 * The first post of a new series – notes from a small house 🏠 * Square metreage of the week – how small is a small house? 📏 * A new exclusive post, plus an opportunity to get Christmas early 🎄

Richard Allardice Nov 11, 2021

#25 ⭐ Figuring out what you mean by just saying everything; also, brrm cars 🚗

What’s in the box? 🎁 * I don’t watch Top Gear and know nothing about motorsports, so it’s only natural that the thing of the week is about cars. 🚙 🏎️ * The latest podcast, on language and working out what things mean. 🎙️ * A word from our sponsors. 🍏

Richard Allardice Nov 4, 2021

#24 ☎️ Mouth those vowels out loud 🐻

What exactly IS the difference between a hare and a rabbit?Portmanteau of the week 🍔 There’s a special kind of linguistic satisfaction (and cheekiness) in kneading together words to see what combinations might be greater than the sum of their parts. It was supposedly Lewis Carroll who first used

Richard Allardice Oct 27, 2021

#23 🏃 Your urgency is not necessarily my urgency ⏰

Will children who now mostly read time digitally understand “clockwise” and “anticlockwise”?Phrase of the week: Tick tick tick ⏰ I found the quote “Your urgency is not necessarily my urgency” in an old diary list of things I wanted to keep in mind at work. It was to remind myself

Richard Allardice Oct 20, 2021

#22 🧑‍🏫 Wait, what does that mean? 🧐

That’s ironic When I was a high school English teacher, I was tasked with teaching teenagers how to critique a “text” – to look at some writing and untangle its meaning, plus what techniques an author had used, and why. I enjoyed this part of the job, but it could

Richard Allardice Oct 12, 2021

#21 🤭 Terrible working at terrible work 🧹

Work work work ⏰ Full disclosure, especially for my current colleagues reading this: these days, I am a professional person who can hold a job and do good work. But once upon a time, I was a young person who flitted from gig to gig, never really committing, often unsure of

Richard Allardice Oct 5, 2021

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