I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.