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Today I’m writing a blog as a homage to some very special people I work with. Naseem, Yewande & Jon, this blog is for you guys ❤️ They’ve had shout-outs in my previous blogs, and our office bants inspired most of the topics. Although the bants has now had to go on line during the… Read more

My first post of the lockdown… we are living through some pretty surreal times in our little bubbles, connected by the internet. Surreal is an interesting word. It is a back-formation from surrealism, which comes from French surréalisme (sur- “beyond” + réalisme “realism”). And unlike many of the other words I’ve looked at, it has quite modern origins. Surréalisme was… Read more

I was watching an episode of ‘Death in Paradise’ this week. One of the characters used ‘overstand’ as a play on words for ‘understand’, and I thought – why is it understand? It seemed a bit counterintuitive to me – understand is a constructive word. It’s about interpreting information and perceiving meaning. But when the… Read more

Songs are a regular topic of conversation in the office. People tend to feel strongly about the songs they do and don’t like. Often there are complaints about what’s playing. At this time of year it’s the cheesy Christmas songs. We were having one of these conversations about the office playlist, and I thought: what… Read more