Search

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Sales Enquiries

Category: Words

  • Articles

How big is a buttload?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 2, 2026June 28, 2026

  And there is also an assload – an amount carried by a donkey or any…

Read More
  • Vocabulary

Interesting words from Word Daily

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 19, 2026June 12, 2026

I love receiving my daily word from Word Daily. Some of the words dance off…

Read More
  • Animals

Endlings

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 10, 2026June 9, 2026

This was a word I had not heard until recently. An endling is the final…

Read More
  • Culture

These number plates…

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 23, 2026April 14, 2026

Sweden allows vowels in number plates, which many countries do not, due to the possibility…

Read More
  • Articles

Words

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 13, 2026April 2, 2026

And these are not words, but punctuation. AI loves to use bullet points and em-dashes,…

Read More
  • Grammar

Contronyms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 6, 2026March 1, 2026

and some more buckle: to fasten (a belt), or to collapse under pressure. clip: to…

Read More
  • Articles

Did you know what an occlupanid is? I didnt’!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 25, 2026February 22, 2026

People collect them, describe them paint them… …and there is a synthetic taxonomy parody research…

Read More
  • Words

It’s weird to think that every tiny part of your body has a name

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 22, 2026February 19, 2026

acnestis: – the “itch you can’t scratch” has a name. in humans, between the shoulder…

Read More
  • Vocabulary

Did you know this about seconds and minutes? I didn’t!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 8, 2026January 30, 2026

As a word nerd myself, I love the Language Nerds online. This is from their…

Read More
  • Culture

The Nordic countries

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 23, 2026January 22, 2026

I am including this, not for the politics (although for the record I am for…

Read More

Posts pagination

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 26 Next Page

Follow Janet Carr @ This Bug's Life via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,778 other subscribers

Top Posts & Pages

  • Differences between Turquoise, Teal and Aqua
    Differences between Turquoise, Teal and Aqua
  • The Goliath Birdeater
    The Goliath Birdeater
  • 'Those' haircuts
    'Those' haircuts
  • Smile
    Smile
  • The Poo List
    The Poo List
  • Katy Sagal's wardrobe in Sons of Anarchy
    Katy Sagal's wardrobe in Sons of Anarchy
  • A Day in the Life of Gilbert the Purple Medium Gillio Mia Cara
    A Day in the Life of Gilbert the Purple Medium Gillio Mia Cara
  • A Day
    A Day
  • Tina Pearls
    Tina Pearls
  • Quietly by Becky Hemsley
    Quietly by Becky Hemsley

Janet Carr @ This Bug’s Life: recent posts

  • Car colours
  • A Day
  • ‘Those’ haircuts
  • Smile
  • Like clockwork…
  • A Day
  • Built-in obsolescence
  • What do you call these?
  • Sigtuna
  • A day
  • Michal Kulig – what talent!
  • Who can guess these?
  • Lotus Fun Lazy Cat at Home pendant
  • My blue period
  • The Ship of Theseus
  • Black Lidl trench coat
  • Smile
  • Ouch!
  • Harley out on a walk
  • Lumi Finland Supermarket Bag in pink
  • Korres Santorini Grape shower gel
  • Classical Art Memes
  • Interesting
  • Cats and boxes
  • Nynäshamn, Stockholm Municipality
  • I really love these shoes!
  • Living through a world in chaos
  • Chaos
  • Tracking tags
  • There is now an orange Lego cat!
  • Worries
  • A Day
  • Words of Wisdom
  • Smile
  • Classical Art Memes

Janet Carr @ This Bug's Life: Categories

About English Animals Art, Books, Poetry, Movies, Television and Music Articles Beauty Products Bookbinding Booklets Books British vs. American English Culture Design Diaries and Journals Diplomacy and being polite False Friends Fashion Filofaxes and other ring organisers Filofax of the Day (FOTD) Filofax Project Filofax Spotted in the Wild For Sale Frog of the Day Funnies Grammar Guest Posts Handbag of the Day (HOTD) Handbags Hobonichi Idioms In praise of Jewellery Journalism Learning English Lego Midori and other Traveler's Notebooks Movies Notebooks Online Resources Pens Personal Pronunciation Puzzles Reading S African Boerboels Sales Scented Candles Signs Slang Southern Africa Spelling Stationery Stationery, Notebooks and Organisers Sweden Swenglish Tattoos Teaching Television and Music The EU Uncategorized Vocabulary Weight Loss What's in my bag Words Words of Wisdom Writing

Janet Carr @ This Bug’s Life Archives

This Bug’s Life

This Bug’s Life

RSS feed: Posts Posts

  • ‘Those’ haircuts October 2, 2026
    These days if you see TikTok ‘pranks’ being carried out, or dangerous/annoying ‘challenges’, they are…
    Janet Carr
  • Smile October 2, 2026
    Janet Carr
  • Like clockwork… October 1, 2026
    …I came down with my first cold of the season last week, and it was…
    Janet Carr
  • A Day October 1, 2026
    This was a Police ad campaign in the underground, encouraging (presumably) elderly relatives to be…
    Janet Carr
  • Built-in obsolescence September 30, 2026
    I spotted this post on Instagram yesterday and was surprised that upgrading from an iPhone…
    Janet Carr
  • What do you call these? September 30, 2026
    In South African English when I grew up, they were called slip-slops, also shortened to…
    Janet Carr
  • Sigtuna September 29, 2026
    We don’t visit Sigtuna often, but it is the first place I went on the…
    Janet Carr
  • A day September 29, 2026
    In my opinion, this area of Stockholm is one of the ugliest. It is at…
    Janet Carr
  • Michal Kulig – what talent! September 28, 2026
    Find original here
    Janet Carr
  • Who can guess these? September 28, 2026
    Janet Carr
Powered by WordPress.com.
×
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Arcane.
Loading Comments...