Don’t fret
I’ve long thought that simply saying to someone ‘Don’t worry’, is both pointless and infuriating. If only it were that easy to switch off our anxiety. Besides, there’s sometimes good […]
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I haven’t got a clue
Foreign Languages are not a strength of mine. My schoolgirl French is pitiful and my brief efforts at German have dwindled to a single, decidedly odd, phrase: ‘Ich habe keine […]
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Summer reading
Heading off on holiday I looked for a diverting novel and landed upon Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth, a best seller of 20 years ago, which was appealingly reviewed as ‘chick lit […]
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Just my bread and butter
As a phrase, ‘my bread and butter’ refers to our most basic needs and interests, what we require just to get by, but has the ‘ordinariness’ of this foodstuff meant […]