The Gnome Says...

 A headline caught my eye the other day, along the lines of: [Insert name here] wanted to use the pronoun 'they' when referring to t...

Fergus is one of two cats in our household. a grey tabby with an elegant white goatee, a pink nose and worried little eyes. He joined us fro...

There is a certain public misconception, bolstered largely by Hollywood, that, in a few years' time, we'll all be able to transfer o...

There are certain words in the English language which are habitually mispronounced by most people, and it drives me nuts. The pronunciation ...

Over the years, I've noticed a few disturbing trends in advertising. They are more or less obvious, but I'm going to point them out ...

As regular readers are aware, I have been DX'ing now for some 45 years. I started very young. Over those 45 years, I've always con...

The title is a bit of a teaser. For the past 50 years, I have immersed myself in matters astronomical. A voracious reader, I've pored ...