Toff – ‘a rich or upper class person’.
University dress includes an academic cap, or mortarboard, with a black tassel. At Oxford and Cambridge from around the 1600s the titled young undergraduates began to wear gold tassels, known as tufts, as a mark of their superior status.
As often happens with language, the word’s usage [more…]
Philip & Leoni Jenner purchased Port Mall Newsagency in Port Adelaide over 15 years ago. In that time they have transformed the business into a modern newsagency with a diverse product range. Their children, Simon, Kate, Ashley and Cindy,as well as daughter-in-law Lucy have all worked in the business around their school and university [more…]
Readers often tell me that when they can’t solve a crossword clue, they sleep on it and hey presto! In the morning the answer suddenly springs out at them.
Writer John Steinbeck discusses this phenomenon “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of [more…]
