Braindump

Fee-fi-fo-fum! it may not make a great deal of grammatical sense, but this phrase is certain to conjure up mental images of magic beans, rampant beanstalks and one very angry giant. Colossal-sized hum

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Many people associate clans with Scotland, but the word originated in Ireland in the early Middle Ages. It derives from the Irish clann, meaning children, and is used to describe a highly organised hi

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It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

For many people, the word ‘wolverine’ will conjure up the image of a ripped Hollywood superhero, rather than a bear-like creature the size of a dog that lives in the snowy forests, tundra and mountain