Another addition to my already rather long reading list – wading the shallows of the internet the other day has stirred my interest in reading more by Katherine Mansfield: “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown […]
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A few months ago, after a Saturday morning OU tutorial, I visited the Modern Art Oxford gallery. I had walked past many times before and always been curious to see what was there and perhaps enjoy a coffee in the Café if nothing else. So, being in Oxford anyway and […]
from George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this […]