Daily Archives: Sat Mar 4 2006

A lovely day of many friends

Sat Mar 4 2006 – 22:50

Started the day with a lie-in, always good Then hurtled myself out of bed at 9.47 as Kris was due at 10 (although the agreement had been ‘10 – very ish’ to be imprecise! ) and I wanted to be clean before she arrived. Managed that with time to spare, and then [...]

By Jax | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (5)

I ongo, you ongo, he ongoes

Sat Mar 4 2006 – 10:02

:rant: It started with ongoing, but is now pandemic. Today’s annoyance, in press articles about Tessa Jowell, DOWNPLAY.
What is wrong with “play down”? why do we need to keep inventing new verbs to say things we can say perfectly well and a lot more clearly using adverbs?
Who decided to declare war on adverbs?
Why not [...]

By Tim | Posted in Tim's Posts, ranting or raving | Comments (14)