Random Posts – Walking. Gossip. Travel.

Scull Thatcher One of the slightly more jovial definitions in Grose’s book, this means “a peruke maker”, with a peruke

Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 299, 300 and 301

Scald Miserables Grose’s dictionary refers to this as “a set of mock masons, who in 1744 made a ludicrous procession

During lockdown, I started on my riveting (ahem) series of posts from the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. I was

As another of my random and pointless posts, I’ve found this handy web-site which shows the translation of an English

There were some little problems with the blog whilst upgrading to more space, hopefully new posts will appear as usual

This is another one of my complaint posts about TheFork, even though they’ve been sending me what feels like endless

And a little thank you to Richard for hosting this blog for the last year, especially given that it has

This blog has reached nearly 5,000 posts and it’s becoming really quite difficult for anyone to easily navigate around it.

Back to my niche content…. A new rewards scheme from IHG was announced today, although there are nearly no details

As another random post, I never knew booking.com even went up to level three until they e-mailed me this, but