Posts Tagged ‘#covid-19’
Metaphorically speaking…
It’s been a veritable land of milk and honey for metaphor lovers recently. Simile-philes will have been like kids in a sweet shop come to that. It’s all thanks to Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jonathan Van Tam who has had the unenviable task of appearing on the telly to advise us all to stay…
Read MoreLost the grit in your oyster?
So, it’s official: 50 is no longer the new 30. In fact, once you’ve passed 54 your get up and go will have got up and gone says researcher, Hermundur Sigmundsson, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim. Passion and grit in early life fades past 54 apparently. Hmmm… perhaps this is…
Read MoreOh for a bit more Brexit…
“Unprecedented” and “seismic” were phrases commonly used to describe the events around the relatively recent Parliamentary and Brexit shenanigans. Remember them? Suggest we’ll all have to re-calibrate our analogies after this little lot. How are you coping? Scary isn’t it? Do you find yourself wishing you could tune into the radio or telly for a…
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