Culture
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Travel and Transport
What’s the difference between travel, trip, journey, voyage…? Are you a slow coach? Have you ever had enough work para parar un tren? Interesting words and phrases in Spanish and English, all relating to travel and transport. Espanglisher Blog: https://espanglisher.com Music: “Speakeasy” and “Skating Squirrels” by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com Continue reading
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All Aboard!
Have you ever been frustrated by public transport? When would you visit if you could travel in time? What are the ups and downs of travelling?An interview chatting about all this and more… My thanks to Nathalie. Espanglisher Blog: https://espanglisher.com Music: “Speakeasy” and “Skating Squirrels” by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com Continue reading
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All Aboard! Notes on the Interview
Have you ever been frustrated by public transport? When would you visit if you could travel in time? What are the ups and downs of travelling? In this week’s podcast we chat about all sorts relating to the topic of transport and travel. And to be honest, I have little more to say on the Continue reading
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Back for Season 3!
Hey there, welcome back! Thanks for continuing reading and to any new readers, welcome too! So. Parachutes. Having a conversation with my brother a couple of months ago, the roots of the word came up. As they do. Parachute comes from chuter in French, which means to fall, and the prefix, para, means against or Continue reading
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Cheerio for Now
First of all, thanks so much for reading the blog and listening to the podcast this season, and the previous one too! It’s been so much fun to give myself writing and creative challenges. And so gratifying to hear your positive comments, and indeed constructive criticism. For those of you who I don’t know but Continue reading
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Random Words
The Podcast this week was a bit of a one-off, all about words. I talked with my wonderful friend Fiona about words and the topics that came out of them, and here, as promised in the podcast, are some extra details related to what we talked about. Draught and Draft. The first meaning a gust Continue reading
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N-Novella
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The following extract comes from my novella A Far, Far Better Thing. It is a trilogy in one novel following three generations of women and it plays with literary genres. A Far, Far Better Thing ebook A Far, Far Better Thing Paper Continue reading
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P-Perhaps
A Very Short Story All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Perhaps it would be today. The eternal optimist, she woke up every morning thinking… Perhaps. It was a good way to wake up, a positive way, as if every day were a new leaf of the book that Continue reading
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T- Tomorrow
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Remember Little Orphan Annie? I only mention it because I remember playing one of the orphans as a child with the local amateur dramatics association. Annie is the story of a plucky little orphan girl who gets picked by mistake to be Continue reading
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X-Xylophone
A very short story. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I was born among the green and the brown. And sometimes, from beneath my mother’s boughs, I saw the blue. She named me Rose. I grew, little by little, as every living thing does, putting out feelers to Continue reading
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