12 November 2015 Neat and Nimble By Chin Chin When Flanders and Swan wrote their famous song about the gasman, they based the lyrics on those of a Victorian ditty in which the singer falls in love with a young woman who, while “dashing away with the smoothing iron,” steals his heart away. In fact… Continue reading Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Neat and Nimble
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Issue 18: 2015 09 03: On and Off
3 September 2015 On and Off by Chin Chin The verb “to intermit” isn’t used much anymore but years ago it had an honoured place in the English language. Meaning to suspend action for a time, it can be found in literature as diverse as Milton’s Paradise Lost: “Casual discourse…which intermits Our dayeswork” (sic) and… Continue reading Issue 18: 2015 09 03: On and Off
