Speaking of tea
Speaking of tea. Tea is tradition – when, where, who with, what kind, with milk & sugar or, god forbid, without either – tea means an early morning cuppa to …
Three in the bed: understand
Check out today’s tiny titbit: Three in the bed: understand ‘Fathom‘, ‘understand‘ and ‘get one’s head around sth‘ are synonyms meaning ‚‘to understand in the sense of finding an explanation …
10 formal and friends
Business correspondence isn’t what it once was, long-winded formal letters. Today as email rules the roost, things have become more to the point, less formal cos ‘time is money’!. Nonetheless, …
GYG Day 43 ‘should’ and ‘ought to’
Oh the “I really should…….” phrase, like “I really should go to the gym today” The ‘s’ word, which you say to yourself knowing full well that you maybe won’t …
GYG Day 15. Fun on Friday. Henning Wehn has learnt to speak like a Londoner
Reviewing some of the basic grammar can actually be fun. Take the past tense of ‘to be’ for example! Have you conjugated it in your head yet? “I was, you …