You definitely learn things when you are decorating. I now know what a “finial” is. It is that posh bit on the end of a curtain pole.
Not worth much in Scrabble, and really hard to work into everyday conversation (and I have tried).
Rob Miles is technology author and educator who spent many years as a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. He is also a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He is into technology, teaching and photography. He is the author of the World Famous C# Yellow Book and almost as handsome as he thinks he is.
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