Tim Teasdale’s blog

While having a quick procrastination break from writing an essay, I was musing on the delightful way in English that 2 sentences or phrasings that sound as though they should mean the opposite actually mean the same thing.

For example:
“I take the bus to work” and “the bus takes me to work” mean exactly the same thing, even though the subject and object are reversed.

You can also both stand as a candidate in an election, and run as a candidate, which taken literally would seem to mean very different things, but they are equivalent.

When it’s far too hot, there are the obvious comestible remedies, such as cold drinks and ice cream (see end of Joey’s post), but a rather nice alternative is frozen cakes.

Not the sort you’d normally find the the freezer section of the supermarket, but something like a chocolate muffin that you’ve frozen yourself. I’ve only tried it with chocolate muffins and madeira cake so far, but it’s really rather nice, and as they don’t have any cream, etc, in them, you don’t get little bits of ice to kill your teeth.

Delicious, nutritious, and cooling.

After my previous half-hearted attempt at writing a blog fizzled out long before the software running it exploded, taking the far more interesting Joey in Japan with it, I thought I’d have another go, and actually write something vaguely interesting this time.

Interesting to me, at any rate…