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It’s that time of year when every bloke hopes his mother doesn’t knit/buy him the most hideous Christmas jumper in the world – yet again! As we count down the weeks to Christmas, I thought I’d try and find the most hideous Christmas jumper ever. I think I’m off to a good start:
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Well, that’s it, we’re into December and just when you thought advertisers and retailers couldn’t shove Christmas down your throat anymore, along come more ads featuring cringe-worthy Christmas compilations, tacky commercials showing off sickly supermarket spreads and plenty more to remind you that Aunt Edith really would love a new pair of mauve moccassin slippers…
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Homophone Headache! Yesterday in my writing exercise for you, I asked you to spot ten deliberate mistakes in a page of text. One of the mistakes was a homophone (aloud/allowed) where the words sound the same but have a different meaning. It’s so easy to type the wrong word but always look at the context…
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This would be my 17-year-old feline’s idea of kitty heaven!
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I laughed when I read this quote. It’s so true!: Shortest horror story in history: Tomorrow is Monday. Someone agrees:
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Crafty Commas! A lot of new writers are unsure where commas should be placed when writing dialogue. Here’s a guide to help you: If you lead into a passage of speech with ownership, a comma should be placed before the words of speech e.g.: Sarah said, “Would you like a cup of tea?” Alternatively, if…
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The women’s weeklies are jam packed with jaw-dropping and dramatic stories. Surely they aren’t something to be considered by a real writer? These magazines do pay extremely well, sometimes offering £100 for a star letter of only a hundred words or so. True-life tales pay bigger money with some earning the story-teller a whopping £1000.…
Esther Chilton 