Glancing at one of the local trade directories that come through the letterbox week after week, I spotted an ad for a company called 'No.1 PHD'. Not, alas, a business offering help with finishing that troublesome thesis – a bit too niche for Lichfield, that – but one devoted to Plumbing, Heating and Drainage. With so many graduates doing the sensible thing these days and becoming plumbers, this seems oddly apt: they're choosing PHD over a Ph.D. And quite right too.
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- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
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