Spam comments on blogs are becoming far more frequent and although filters like Akismet work very well, there are things that you can do to recognize spam and to deal with it, fighting back at the spammers and helping to warn others if they try to visit their sites.
For some reason I was thinking of what to write for the Letter R, and the word Reverse came to me, and with it the memory of my Dad telling me many years ago about when he learned to drive, which was either just before the Second World War or during it.
Forming a queue, whether it’s when waiting for a bus or a train, waiting for a shop to open, or at the cash register in a store, well it’s something that most British people were brought up to do, although sadly these days not everyone respects this great British tradition.
Growing up many (too many) years ago, even though Payne is a common surname in the UK, and 99% of the Paynes have it spelled this way, few people ever got it right. It was not only frustrating to find that every time someone wrote your name down it was P-A-I-N-E, it was the fact that it sounded the same as P-A-I-N that really wound me up.
I would like to introduce to you Paul Ward otherwise known as Paul On Books on Squidoo, who is a Guest Writer on our blog and will be posting some interesting articles on Writing, Books and other topics over the coming months.
It’s something that all writers have to face sooner or later, that day when they wake up and try to write an article, but no topic comes to them, and the words refuse to flow. It’s called Writers Block, or in other words My Muse Has Left Me.
Nuts! Nuts! All kinds of nuts, from Peanuts to Almonds, Brazil Nuts and Cashew Nuts. This article explores my memories of nuts, both the edible kind as well as verbal memories of nuts.
They say that Money Is The Root Of All Evil and that Money Can’t Make You Happy, and while in many ways this is true, I think that anyone who has a shortage of money would strongly disagree.
In this edition of News From A Weird World, you can find some really weird stories that include joining the US Army to become a US Citizen, the Prime Minister Pen Snatcher, the soap actor who died 5 times in a day, attack of the flying vacuum cleaners, beware of giant flying fish and more.
This is the third and final part of my first trip to Jamaica, where I visited Captain Henry Morgan’s home Port Royal, the Giddy House, and had an adventure visiting nearby Lime Cay.