Win a face to face with a literary agent.
Via Litopia (which, if you are trying to get published you should go and join). Write a 1000 word short story and you can win a book (Heaven can wait), some cash and some facetime with an agent at the Darley Anderson Agency. Darley Anderson are Big Dawgs in the lit. ag. world with clients whom you could be forgiven for knocking on the head and rifling their pockets for cash and notes on forthcoming projects. Rules, T&Cs etc here. Publish authors and foreigners need not apply.The theme is 'Heaven'.

Word of the day: anemometer.
I wish I had one on the roof. I'm not saying it's windy, but a seagull has just been blown backwards through a privet hedge.

150 years ago
a sick, worried man in Ilkley, Yorkshire penned cover letters to his new book. A modern PR would not approve of the author's self-reviews...."I may be egregiously wrong.""There are very many difficulties.""you will fulminate anathemas"The private copies to fellow scientists went out on November 11th and 12th. The book went public on 22nd November. It sold out at once.The book was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin. He was egregiously right. The difficulties have been very unmanied by modern science. And the people who now fulminate anathemas at it and him are egregiously wrong.

A word politics demands we resurrect: 'tory-rory'
While researching the etymology of treacle (as you do) I went for the paper Shorter Oxford English Dictionary rather than the lazy Google search. The book lets you browse, and come across words sliding out of use like 'tory-rory'"1. adverb: uproariously, boisterouslyadjective: roaring, uproarious, roistering, boisterousand, oh dear...2. Ruffianly.So when the Tories win the UK general election in May, expect some Tory tory-rory. But only of the first sort, please.

Elcidivist.
(n.) A Spanish repeat offender.