Carol's blog
- Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) - March 2., 2017
- Brexit | Hard to take issue with a single word of the first Evening Standard editorial under its new editor, George Osborne - May 3., 2017
- Torschlusspanik - options are narrowing, that the boat is leaving - July 27., 2017
- Word of the day: "chime" - collective noun for wrens; the wren is also known as "druid" (Welsh), "little king" (Dutch) & "jenny" - September 28., 2017
- The #FREE #knitting pattern for the #EUbeanie + #pussyhat - October 27., 2017
- Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes - October 27., 2017
- May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace - October 27., 2017
- 27 October 2017 - This Winter Palace clock was stopped 100yrs ago when Bolsheviks seized power - started again - October 27., 2017
- Amazing pumpkins for RNLI - October 30., 2017
- 'Apricity’ the warmth of the sun on a chilly day - October 30., 2017
- A thousand acres of London's super-prime real estate is owned by 5 aristocratic families, the Crown & the Church - November 3., 2017
- Sample of women's suffrage petition presented #onthisday 1884 - November 3., 2017
- Nature - at Hawthorn Time - November 9., 2017
- Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” - December 4., 2017
- Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" - December 15., 2017
- Word(s) of the day: “scréachóg reilige” - ‘screecher of the cemetery’; Irish name for the barn owl. Also “cailleach-oidhche ghea - February 8., 2018
- Winnol Weather.... - March 4., 2018
- Word(s) of the day: "rionnach maoim"...'the moving shadows cast by clouds on moorland on a sunny, windy day'. Such compressed el - March 6., 2018
- Almost two-fifths (38%) of particulate matter comes from domestic wood burners and open fires, used by 7.5% of homes - May 22., 2018
- Renewing the Water Bounds at Truro.... - June 14., 2018