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The heights charm us but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There’s a very short word […]
The heights charm us but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There’s a very short word […]
Little by little, one travels far JRR Tolkein If you want to know something the first thing you should do, of course, is ask the right question. When I worked […]
Originally posted on The Memrise Blog:
Tucked away in the corner of the UK, one of the world’s most monolingual countries, you’ll find a beacon of bilingualism for the rest…
A couple of weeks ago I blew a gasket. Yes, me…I’m much mellower now than I used to be but occasionally I see or hear something that ignites my dormant […]
Last summer we decided to have a fence built atop part of our garden wall, to give us some privacy from occasional passers-by. Not that we’d mind if they did […]
The two worst months of the year have come and gone – not that they were that bad here, this time around. We haven’t suffered from too much rain, and […]
A little while ago I was lounging on the sofa minding my own business and half-listening to the evening weather forecast on BBC Wales when I heard the presenter (Behnaz […]
When Lizzie was very young every minor illness (thank God there were no major ones) was accompanied by a little…drama, shall we say. I won’t embarrass her here by regaling […]
The boiler has broken down. As I write I’m half-buried beneath a blanket with my laptop on my knees. Mr B’s on the other sofa with a blanket of his […]
Snow came to the Usk Valley this week – though only on the hilltops, which is probably a good thing. We disagree about snow in our house; I love it and Mr […]