I've always loved advertising that makes you think a bit. Something that grabs your attention - a tell ad or a poster that stops you in...

I've always admired truly creative thinking, especially in difficult situations... like English language schools. It's not easy to think...

Well, Oslo, anyway. My brother is a keen writer about all things Viking and wanted to go to Norway last week to have a look around, see...

I saw this poster today at Bromley South station and had a wry smile. It was nice to see that Southeastern railway had a sense of humour...

I really hate that expression. Always have. Sounds grubby. But there I was (in better days) in the picture above at a language fair in...

I was at The Royal Albert Hall last week and no, it was not to see Beethoven's 9th (that was this week). I went to see one of my...

"Water is a precious commodity," said Harry, the Thames Water man, as he put blue plastic bags on his boots and trudged into my house two...

I was talking to Huan Japes of English UK at the StudyWorld workshop last week. After the usual happy platitudes (Huan is a lovely...

"Now comes the boring bit," said a friend of mine. "The follow-up stuff." He'd just got through over 55 meetings at the two conferences...

This board was outside a cafe just two hundred yards from the Park Plaza Hotel (near Waterloo station) where this year's ALPHE...