The Trusted Contacts networking group meets for breakfast every fortnight to share knowledge and experience and discuss the hot topics of the day. For the last couple of months the hot topic on [...]
This week I’ve been somewhat obsessed with draughts – and I don’t mean the board game. Or a quantity of drink. Or the depth of water a boat needs to float. Or preliminary drawings or [...]
Last week, somewhat oxymoronically, I tucked into the subject of fasting and served up, in a small ceramic side dish, the word breakfast. It’s always been a favourite of mine, not so much [...]
Anyone new to learning English will be delighted to hear that we have a simple little word, ‘fast’, which means moving rapidly, and we have another little word, ‘fast’, [...]
Last week I touched on the subject of talking animals – specifically a bilingual parrot, who had gone away to learn Spanish. It was never intended to become a running theme but then inspiration [...]
