For no particular reason...

(1) It was Terry Pratchett who pointed out in Lords & Ladies that Chateau might translate in French as Cat Water. All the more surprising then that it's used so often in the name of wines?

(2) From Passage to Juneau, Jonathan Raban.

Death is wilderness in which we are all lost for words

(3) The sweetest blackcurrants I ever tasted were growing wild in Reading cemetery.

(4) David Sandham, a fellow chess player who plays just as well as me.

Chess is like a language played by a downtrodden minority, that no-one else speaks.

(5) Have you ever noticed that enema sits next to enemy in the dictionary?

(6) Time is the most precious resource. Now is its most critical aspect.

(7) Whilst waiting for a train a few years ago, my wife, Jeanette, exclaimed:

My brain is so big that I cant find anything