What is it?

What is it?

This clipping is from The Age Digital Edition, Sunday, 27 Feb 2022, Page 100. So there you are! I’ve given you the answer, it’s an advert from the newspaper. But, if you are like me, even after you’ve carefully scrutinised it you probably aren’t any the wiser. As I...
Building an audience for your blog

Building an audience for your blog

UK based Alan Stevens has been working in the media and speaking worlds for a very long time, and what he doesn’t know about them is probably not worth knowing. I learn a lot from his weekly newsletter where I found this article. When you start a blog, it’s like...
A puzzlement!

A puzzlement!

Yep, I’ve pinched Yul Brunner’s lovely phrase, when playing the King of Siam in the movie The King & I, he was confounded by a question he couldn’t answer. I am confounded by the question of why companies who claim they can generate your business truckloads of...
Remember the 5 P’s!

Remember the 5 P’s!

Here’s a very enticing leaflet that was dropped in our letter box in December. With the magic word ‘free’ bold and beautiful it really got my attention. It had me thinking I might mosey on down and buy a burger for the missus and claim my free one. Regrettably one...
Writing to be Understood!

Writing to be Understood!

Years ago we used to have a fairly simple way of determining the readability of what you had written. It was called the Fog Test and we had a formula based on the length and number of words in a sentence, the average sentence length and the number of technical words,...
An Ugly Word!

An Ugly Word!

Like most people around the world (I was going to say in Australia till I realised that internationally everyone is pretty much in the same boat!) I wanted to get my booster vaccination, hopefully to prevent me coming down with the dreaded son of Covid, the omicron...