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A week (Monday)
Photo credit: timecenter.com This morning I was listening to my favourite radio show by Shaun Keaveny – together with chocolate & tangerine granola it’s one of the few things that gets me out of...
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Losable… and other -able adjectives
Photo credit: funnyjunk.com What an eventful week… Yesterday I taught my first Russian class at a language school – it was a new experience for me as so far I have only taught individual students. It...
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Diary-intolerant
Photo credit: oldragbaggers.com As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, at some point in the morning I usually listen to Shaun Keaveny’s breakfast show on BBC 6 Music, which never fails to cheer me...
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Russian up… and some other phrasal verbs you never knew existed
Photo credit: wikipedia.org The other day I had another class with my Russian beginner group and one of my students had just returned from a trip to Russia. We all asked how it went and he was really...
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Could you watch over my stuff?
Photo credit: gourmetravelista.com A couple of weeks ago I was having a tea in a café between my lessons, and a girl sitting opposite suddenly said ‘Excuse me, could you watch over my stuff?’ I nodded...
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A do (wait… isn’t ‘do’ a verb?)
Photo credit: theguardian.com Apologies for the prolonged silence on this blog – I cannot even say that I was extremely busy with work, but somehow I just didn’t get round to writing anything. On...
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Everything but the kitchen sink
I apologize for my prolonged absence and for not posting anything for months. I cannot even say that I was extremely busy – at least not all of the time – but there was a fair amount of things going...
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It’s a doddle!
Photo credit: justinjackson.ca If I had to pick one of the new–ish words that I’ve been hearing a lot lately, it would be ‘doddle‘! Every now and then I hear ‘it’s a doddle‘ about things that are easy...
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To tide you over
Photo credit: tidetimes.co.uk (Gosh, I really struggled to find an appropriate image for this one!) When I need some baby items that I want to buy second-hand (or, more often, when I have an episode of...
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I’ll leave you to it / I’ll let you get on with it
Photo credit: © H. Armstrong Roberts/CORBIS We have a very friendly lady who lives in the same building and, considering I go out for a walk with Alisa at least twice a day, we bump into her quite...
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