goedemorgen! My first online Dutch lesson starts in 10 minutes, so I can learn to speak Belgian!

we used to sing a song at school about wife beating, what were our teachers thinking of?Wee Cooper O'Fife - Wikipedia

two years after I got my MA my university has finally cancelled my JSTOR and Oxford English Dictionary access, sadly. I had hoped they'd forgetten to.

You can't have your cake and eat it, that saying never made sense to me, how can you possibly eat your cake if you don't have it?

I am fairly sure the Conservatives will be gone next year, but it is actually a nice change to have a Prime Minister who seems to want to try to run the country properly

we discovered a tin of marmalade in my father in law's attic

to marinade or to marinate? I've always said the first and thought the second was correct

So the Orange shop on the left doesn't sell oranges, and the Banana shop on the right does not sell bananas, but does sell Apples

Two thousand and twenty-three or twenty twenty-three? I say the latter.

my daughter gave me some press-on nails as a Christmas present, I don't think she actually expected I would try them