SubscribeAs you know, I think the language we use around cancer is powerful, and important. I talk about a dance, not a fight. I talk about having had a cancer, singular, not cancer, the big scary thing. On the title of this blog, on the cover of my book, the ‘c’ of cancer is not [...]
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Where the words are
Yesterday I discovered a website called Wordcount. It’s an experiment in the way we use language, tracking how often the 86,800 most frequently used words in the English language are used.
I looked up some of the words that mean something here.
‘Cancer’, it turns out, is the 2,397th most frequently used word in English. It’s right [...]
Declaration
Well, the first driving lesson in 20+years went surprisingly well. Hill starts, 3 point turns, roundabouts, junctions, and a little bit of the A1, where I got up to 55mph and 4th gear. (There are, I’m sure, fingernail marks in the steering wheel from where I was gripping. I need to get my head round [...]
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