Author: Alex
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Mental health
CN: Mental health (obviously), suicide reference Today is the last day of Mental Health Awareness Week here in the UK. Since I’ve been involved in a couple of events in my Department connected to…
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The Silver Blade
So someone sent me a really interesting—if somewhat vague—suggestion for a blog post, which will be next week’s post. However, it takes a certain amount of research, and I haven’t had time to do…
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Lipograms and so on
I’m a fan of writing with constraints, in which an author insists upon choosing words that satisfy a condition. By this, I’m talking about things in grammar or linguistics, not topics of writing. A…
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Arndalia
I’ve barely left the house in the last few weeks, and I haven’t escaped Oxford since I returned on the day I went to Doncaster, well over a month ago now. For me, this…
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Easter: stock photos
Thanks for the ideas for blog posts: I’m going to start with them next week. I’m still taking more, so if you have anything to suggest, hop on over to my contact form. This…
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Nursery rhymes
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write for this post, so I asked for suggestions from friends. Since I really have no idea what I’m going to write here during quarantine, I thought…
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Quiz: emoji book titles
I completely forgot that I’m doing this blog again, so I haven’t prepared a post for today. I’ve spent the whole day playing Animal Crossing instead of writing it. I want to say it…
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Doncaster
It’s been a while since I last blogged on here, and I’m aware that there is something counterintuitive about choosing to make another post on my travel blog at a time when a lot…
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Hiatus part V: the bug
The big, scary day is approaching, and you’re scared. There have been a lot of stories in the newspapers, about food running out in supermarkets, medicines being unavailable, and the NHS collapsing under the…
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Hiatus part III: Oxfordshire bus numbers
Thrilling title, I know. So this was a Twitter thread I put out on Tuesday, and someone said to me “you could make that into a blog post”. And I’m on hiatus, so here…