Leave to Remain (album) Leave to Remain (album) Leave to Remain is the sixth studio album by Kathryn Williams released on CAW Records on 1 October 2006. It was her first to feature Kate St John who would produce her next solo album, "The Quickening", in 2010. The track 'Stevie' on the album refers to the poet and novelist Stevie Smith with its chorus echoing the title of her poem 'Not Waving But Drowning' . The song premiered at 'The Beat Goes On' at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation at
Hand-waving is engaging in a verbal hand-wave inappropriately. The spelling of the compound varies (both with regard to this idiom and the everyday human communication gesture of waving). While "hand-waving" is the most common spelling of the unitary present participle and gerund in this usage, and "hand-wave" of the simple present verb, "hand wave" dominates as the noun-phrase form. "Handwaving" and "handwave" may be preferred in some circles, and are well attested. "Hand waving" is mostly used otherwise, e.g. "she had one hand waving, the other on the rail", but is found in some dictionaries in this form. A more arch,