I’m now back from my holidays in Brazil. A great time was had, although I appear inadvertently to have gained half a stone in weight. We did all the tourist stuff (Sugarloaf Mountain, Christ the Redeemer, Maracana stadium, museums, boats, waterfalls etc.) and I learned lots of stuff, such as:

Brazilians like to eat a lot of [...]

I’m going on holiday for the next three weeks and will not be posting anything on Words Dept. until after Christmas and possibly until the New Year. I may, if I can be bothered, post some Twitter updates while in Brazil, which will appear in the little panel on the left.
Until then I wish you, [...]

My two regular readers will be aware of my holiday problems. In short, we (that’s me and my girlfriend) booked a three-week holiday in Thailand several months ago, which we have had to cancel as a result of the closure of Bangkok airport. While the airport has started to handle flights again, the huge backlog [...]