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Simultaneous Living
It’s my last night in the UK, and I’m correspondingly angrumpressed. Which, for those who aren’t almost too into spoonerisms, is a combination of angry, grumpy and depressed. It’s how I get whenever I have to leave this place, as I feel like I”m being forced to leave my home. When I lived in the UK […]
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The Scotland Photos, and busy-ness.
(click to enlarge) Posts about Scotland: ____________________________________________________________ This article, about the ‘perils of busyness’, is the kind of thing people are forever tagging me in. And, given that it’s taken me 5 months to upload my promised Scotland photos, they may have a point! So, I hope you’ve enjoyed them. I’ve also just about finished […]
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Douche Душ Dusche
Sometimes English is weird. There is, of course, the example of ‘pineapple’, which manages to be called ‘ananas’ in all the other languages: Etymoline.com informs me that the word ‘pineapple’ comes from ‘pine’ + ‘apple’ (really helpful there), which still makes about zero sense. I’ve just done a similar search for ‘shower’ (because isn’t etymology […]
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Grand Re-Entrance
It is good to be back! I have been a very busy girl, and am already falling behind on blog posts – terrible, I know. I made the notes for this particular post while sitting in Pret a Manger, after talking to a particularly beautiful Slovak man. I was in the cafe waiting for Craig, […]
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Gallic Saints
After making the notes for yesterday’s post, I went and met up with Kiwi Craig. I really wanted to go to my favourite pasta place in London – I went and had an amazing pumpkin ravioli with walnut sauce before getting my tattoo last year, and keep trying to go back. I say ‘trying’, because […]