One of the churches – maybe Freshford – inspected during a sodden stroll around Bath the other day had been completely redecorated in pirate stylee, so that one almost expected to find Captain Morgan and His Magnificent Organ in the loft. Izabella Kaminska might spin this as an attempt to regulate Satanic forces which, in…
Over at Colin Davies’: Google Translate as free copy Terminator, or, if your masterpiece is illegible in the source language, then don’t expect a transbot to help you out. Similarly, if not in style, Salvador Sostres says that language learning is for secretaries and salespersons, something you should encourage in your child only if his…
1/2, from Waitrose, M&S, … To the extent that the dishes are recognisable, it should be said that many are also generally poorly prepared in Spanish bars, and the supermarket versions are often pretty horrible. But in Britain culinary ignorance combined with the opiate fantasies of illiterate marketeers is producing a rather special new genre.
A little experiment, featuring “Tulips from Amsterdam”, “Hungry, hungry” from Dr Seuss, and “When you are old and grey” by one of the authors of “Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter.”
Strolling up the Lea and then through Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Dalston and downtown Hackney with the cracking dawn, most happy to discover in an African independent church the organisation called Kumon, which offers an alternative English and maths programme for small children. Later, most unhappy to discover that this is not an Ebonics-style misspelling…
