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Trolling and cyberbullying are irritating and potentially harmful habits, and the people that engage in it tend to be those that wouldn’t say boo to a goose if they didn’t have the protection of their computer or mobile phone screen in front of them, but what happens when they’re actually confronted about what they’ve done? […]

Sites like Facebook and Twitter are packed with people trying to ridicule other individuals and make their lives a misery, but why do they do it? What are they gaining from it? Bullying, of course, is

The advert of word processing has made it easy for us to complete written work in dribs and drabs, often jumping onto the next paragraph without finishing the first one. This is in stark contrast to the older days of typewriters and traditional print, where work would have to be churned through in strict order […]

Thanks to internet access and businesses beginning to appreciate the advantages of flexibility, more and more people are using their own home as their workplace. The most recent Office for National Statistics figures are from 2015 and show that nearly one in seven (13.7%) Brits now work from home. Those confined to a remote office […]

As we all have work, family and social commitments, the amount of time dog owners are able to spend with their beloved pooches is not always as much as they would like. If this sounds like a position you find yourself in, have you considered taking your dog to work? Today is Bring Your Dog […]

Even the most proficient writers have the occasional word they just can’t remember how to put together. Perhaps you’re always tempted to put an ‘a’ somewhere in the word ‘sentence’, or maybe you find yourself reciting ‘I before E, except after C’ to yourself before wrongly spelling words like ‘weird’, ‘weight’ and ‘leisure’. The state […]

Despite being the largest country on the planet, as well as one of the most powerful, most of us know little about Russia and particularly its language. While we may remember some French, German or Spanish from school, Russian, with its 33-character Cyrillic alphabet, is a lot more alien to the majority of Brits. This […]

There are some food and drink items that are well known to be bad for dogs. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that giving alcohol to a dog is a very bad idea, and most dog owners are well aware of the dangers of feeding them chocolate. In modern times though, when we […]

With new and inexperienced writers, one of the most common mistakes they make is displaying a lack of structure in how they write. When we talk, we often jump back and forth in what we’re saying, perhaps referring back to an idea from earlier in the discussion. In writing, we need to be a lot

If you want to write for a living, or even as a hobby, one thing you have to get to grips with is the alphabet. You only have 26 letters to use to form your work, so here are 26 tips – one beginning with each of them – on how to make your writing […]

Of all the gripes that grammarians have, it’s often the smallest and seemingly most innocuous that annoy them the most. Apostrophes and their correct use is one matter that keeps many sticklers for grammar awake at night. This is literally the case for the so-called ‘Grammar Vigilante’, a mystery night-time activist who seems to have

When Facebook first took off, how many ‘friends’ you had was quite a big thing. Facebook made it very public, and some people may have found it a bit disheartening to see people with four-figure friend lists while theirs was grinding to a halt around the 75 mark. Today, Facebook seems a lot less competitive, […]

Everybody has a slightly different technique of preparing for an exam. You might be someone who regularly reviews their material over the course of a year or more, or you may be the type who prefers to put in a big revision session here and there. Either way, the day will eventually come when the […]

Writing is one of the few professions or hobbies that we can do pretty much anywhere. Helped by modern technology, writers have so many more options and locations at their disposal than to simply sit at a desk with a pen and notepad. Working at a desk is fine, of course, but there’s no need […]