I’ve been twittering for a couple of months now. I’m not actually addicted (I could give it up any time) but I’m up to a couple of hundred updates and I’ve got two separate accounts going. I suppose you’ve been reading about it all over the place so I’ll stick to what I’ve learnt: It’s… Continue reading The inevitable Twitter post
Month: March 2007
A dictionary of my Dad
Last Wednesday my dad, George Bowbrick, died. He died in a hospital in Dublin a week after we learnt he had a bone tumor and a secondary lung cancer. He’d been in real pain for quite a long time and various stupid doctors had diagnosed this pain as ‘frozen shoulder’, which is common and non-fatal.… Continue reading A dictionary of my Dad
Those dictionaries
A list of the 55 dictionaries that I found amongst my dad’s books when he died. Back to my blog post about him. Dictionary of Gastronomy Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs Dictionnaire des Noms Propres A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names Dictionary of Inventions Dictionary of Pub Names A Dictionary of Eponyms The Oxford… Continue reading Those dictionaries