I haven’t got a clue
Foreign Languages are not a strength of mine. My schoolgirl French is pitiful and my brief efforts at German have dwindled to a single, decidedly odd, phrase: ‘Ich habe keine […]
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Summer reading
Heading off on holiday I looked for a diverting novel and landed upon Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth, a best seller of 20 years ago, which was appealingly reviewed as ‘chick lit […]
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Just my bread and butter
As a phrase, ‘my bread and butter’ refers to our most basic needs and interests, what we require just to get by, but has the ‘ordinariness’ of this foodstuff meant […]
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Either/Or
Extrovert/introvert, head/heart, optimist/pessimist – there are endless ways we seek to categorise ourselves and others. Many of them are thoroughly binary; you have to be one thing and NOT another, […]