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Unusually for me I joined in a Twitter chat last night (15 July). I say unusually as I’m quite strict about my working hours and my screen time, because I feel it’s important for my mental wellbeing and work/life balance. It was #commschat, a weekly Twitter chat on a specified subject for people who work […]

Most dog owners know that one of the principles of basic canine training is rewarding good behaviour and correcting undesirable (bad) behaviour. If you aren’t clear with your dog about what is right and wrong he/she won’t have a clue what to do. Waiting patiently for food? Good. Jumping up at visitors? Bad. A lot […]

I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about litter picks. I think it’s totally the wrong message to send out i.e. ‘we’ll pick up after you”. No. Change the record. Change the message. I wouldn’t dream of dropping litter and I think part of that is the way I was brought up, but also the […]

I love words, I really do. I don’t do this just because I wasn’t any good at anything else! I like words in books and songs. I like words in other languages and sometimes I like making words up. For example, levabevamevamemonade. Which is of course lemonade. It’s an in-joke between me and a four-year-old […]

I’ve seen leveraging twice this morning in a trade journal, a UK media related journal. Leverage is in the bullshit list no? It’s in mine. It doesn’t sound right and it doesn’t read right. Why utilise it when you could use a ton of other words? See what I did there. Utilise is another. Bleugh. […]