Here, for the fourth month running, is a screenshot taken from the BBC website showing the top of the Championship, the second tier of English football. Like the previous three examples this one shows Leeds United (the team I have followed since the 1960s) top of the table and Norwich in second place. Previous pieces… Continue reading Enjoying it while it lasts
Here’s a phrase that I heard for the first time last month: “Summer bodies are made in spring”. I caught just a minute or two of Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show on Radio 2 one morning and that seemed to be the lesson of the day. There might have been a more detailed chat with someone… Continue reading “Summer bodies are made in spring”
Here’s my weekly summary of questions and answers from the latest series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. These are for the shows broadcast week beginning Monday 25 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 51 onwards). The format is the same as in earlier pieces: a list of the “Tenable” challenges (6 per show), a note on… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 1 March 2019
Just like emirp and plangonologist, here’s another word that hasn’t made it into the Oxford English Dictionary yet: plogging. A note from my son’s school tells me that this week he will be taking part in his first plogging session, during PE, and explains: “Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter (Swedish:… Continue reading Word of the week: plogging
It’s a while since a line from a song prompted me to write one of these occasional pieces about lyrics. It has happened again this month, with a performance by Rudimental on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2. Zoe Ball took over the morning slot from Chris Evans at the start of… Continue reading “How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?”
Here’s my weekly summary of questions and answers from the latest series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. These are for the shows broadcast week beginning Monday 18 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 46 onwards). The format is the same as in earlier pieces: a list of the 30 “Tenable” challenges, a note on how the… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 22 February 2019
Here, for the third month running, is a screenshot taken from the BBC website showing the top of the Championship, the second tier of English football. Like the previous two examples this one shows Leeds United (the team I have followed since the 1960s) top of the table and Norwich in second place. I wanted… Continue reading More about goal difference, and 2 points per game
Here’s my weekly summary of questions and answers from the latest series of ITV quiz show “Tenable”. These are for the shows broadcast Monday 11 February to Friday 15 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 41-45). The format is the same as in earlier pieces: a list of the 30 “Tenable” challenges, a note on how… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 15 February 2019
The word “emirp” was featured in three bonus questions during last week’s episode of “University Challenge”, broadcast on Monday 4 February 2019 here in the UK. It’s available for another 22 days here on the BBC iPlayer. At 22:24 Jeremy Paxman introduces the bonus questions as follows: “‘prime’ spelt backwards is ‘emirp’, a term denoting… Continue reading Word of the week: emirp
This piece from last week listed all the questions and answers from Week 1 of the new series of ITV quiz show “Tenable” (Series 3, Episodes 31-35). Here are the questions and answers from Week 2, Monday 4 February to Friday 8 February 2019 (Series 3, Episodes 36-40). The format here is the same as… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, week ending 8 February 2019
The Compartments 