Entries from March 2009

15 March 2009

Five more things…

My friend Kavey suggested a new Five Things meme in which you tell someone else what you associate with them, and ask them to elaborate. So, here are the things she came up with for me.
1. (Foreign) Language and Literature
I’ve always loved language in general, and especially the way that the systems of different languages [...]

3 March 2009

The colour purple*

* I am thinking of this or this, not this.
Hands up who remembers the 80s, when so-called jewel colours were all the rage and teenage would-be fashion victims (viz.: me) would clad themselves from top to toe in said hues, sometimes wisely tempered with a liberal element of black or white, though more than occasionally [...]