The Plashing Vole

I get the manner/manor mistake frequently in student essays. I also got it in an email from Wiggle Cycles today: and all manor of other mat...

I've just received a packet of posters to grace the walls in my office. They're all grammar and spelling-related. The idea is th...

I won't name the famous child protection charity at whose headquarters I found this abortion of a notice. But the title of this post may...

Everyone watching the lunar eclipse tonight? Meanwhile, you may like this snarky, pedantic website , picking up Facebook spelling and gram...

In the window of the bookies' next door to my flat.

As well as Vole, I have quite an ordinary name - one British people will have heard and maybe even seen, though it's a classic Irish one...

My own union, the University and Colleges Union, is holding a mass demonstration in London with the National Union of Students to protest th...

Right - home for cleaning, cooking and MORE WORK! But I'll leave you with some beautiful photographs. I know it's mean, and that t...

I won't identify the particular takeaway food establishment this comes from, but I'm very happy that this delicacy is back on the me...

OK, not grammar really, but who could resist such a pun? Shamefully, two of these pictures are taken in a UNIVERSITY coffee shop. What is th...

I've seen some strange things today (and yesterday). The Waterstones notice above the cycling books reading 'Peddle Power' - I d...