This week we have been thinking about made up words. Sometimes normal words just won’t do. Here is our summary of made up words:
Quadpod - like a tripod but with four legs, so yes, maybe you could call it a stool, but it doesn’t sound as good.
Archive > June 2007
Made up words
Hippy Harry…
When I was growing up most years (when it was on) we would go to Glastonbury. Ah so cool, soo cool. But, no!
Not when you’re growing up in Tring, the rainbow warrior t-shirt-down-to-your-knees look is not one celebrated by those (in same peer group) whose own style is comprised more of those classic common denominators: [...]
What’s an Octopig?
When my friend’s brother was younger, he had a cat called Scallywag, a tom cat. One holiday, they were driving round a roundabout in Birmingham (not sure if that was the final destination of their holiday – I shall resist all other comments) and Scallywag made a bid for freedom through the slightly open back [...]
Reality TV as we know it…
Ah the summer has started - no, it’s not the torrential rain that’s told me that, it’s Big Brother back on our screens! Rachel announced to me yesterday that she wouldn’t be watching this year, and is going to read intellectual books and possibly learn to knit or something worthy [...]
Favela Flavours
Here’s a lovely recycling story from all the way over in Brazil, sent to us by Tom.
In 1971, Jaime Lerner became mayor of Curitiba, the capital of the southeastern state of Brazil. He was by profession an architect. Quite typical for the region, the urban population had mushroomed from 120,000 people in 1942 to over [...]
Rachel’s show and tell
Today we have a tour going round BedZED (the Laundry’s home) of extremely intelligent 10 year olds. They all look very earnest and slightly worried. I’ve been thinking about how serious everything seems when you are little and how all my earliest memories are based on very-serious-at-the-time-but-now-ridiculous-embarrassing-incidents.
Take that, C. O’Mingle…
STOP PRESS:
Paper recyclers have withdrawn their support for the “Recycle Now Week” campaign that is to start tomorrow, accusing the campaign of failing to support “sustainable recycling”.
See the whole article here …
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