With great regret I have decided that, for the first time in five years, I won’t be taking part in NaNoWriMo this year.

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Cat, slumped over laptop keyboard: “Writers blox - I has it”

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A quick post to sing the praises of Daily Lit - a service which sends you books in instalments, to help you fit them into your busy schedule.

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This, from Joe Kinnear’s inaugural and quite likely only press conference as caretaker manager of beleagured Newcastle United Football Club, is priceless. Nothing like clearing the air from the outset.

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No, not the title of a spam email, but what the words and graphics tool Wordle makes of the categories of this blog.

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It’s very hard to understand why parents would saddle their child with a ridiculous name. And, in New Zealand, a judge agrees. Read this and boggle.

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Today The Independent visits Dorset where, in among all the ‘piddles’ that have discreetly been converted to ‘puddles’ is, apparently this gem. What is it with this county and its lavatorial associations?

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Here’s Neil Gaiman’s bid for funniest man in the world, apropos of David Tennant’s decision to temporarily hang up his trenchcoat and blue suit and play Hamlet.

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Today’s Wikitionary’s Word of the Day, which I found very pleasing.

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