You work hard during the week, and on the weekend all you want is a chance to chill out and relax, right? If a quick and easy getaway is what you want, and if you’re looking for a destination a stone’s throw from Johannesburg, then the Loskop Dam may just be everything you need. Neatly [...]
Horror upon horror, I would wager that the last time you heard the phrase “parts of speech” you were dozing at the back of Mrs Sourberry’s English double period dreaming about Samantha Foxworthy playing netball, right? And in a frenzy of spitting hatred the old hag would beat the principles into your hand with her [...]
Your headline needs to sell the rest of your article – and you have mere milliseconds to grab attention.
Copywriters have always known that a good headlines is the key to getting their work read. Like the subject line of an email, it is the headline that does most of the work yet so few time [...]
Everything you need to know about becoming a freelance writer is here. You only need to find the will to become a freelance writer and pursue your dream of working at your own pace, on your own terms, from anywhere in the world. If writing is what you love, then freelance writing is the career [...]
Fantastically funny, this Izzard of ours.
“I can kill catering with a thought”. Funny!
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Neil Gaiman, who brought us the Sandman graphic novels as well as Stardust (which became a major film) and co-authored the script for the film Beowulf, has returned with THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, available at the finest of stores worldwide (including Amazon).
A tale of childhood, set in a graveyard, the book tells the tale of [...]
Phrases are funny old things, and have been around for ages, most of them anyway. Where do they come from? Who first said “FORE!” on a golf course? What does it all really, really mean?
Take the common phrase “Hip Hip Hooray”, for example. ’tis been said that the phrase comes from Roman times, 70 AD [...]
