Now that December has arrived, it’s time to get your skates on and start thinking seriously about Christmas presents for family and friends. Whether you’re after stocking fillers for teenage students, a Secret Santa present for an office colleague or something special for a full-time writer, there are loads of gorgeous gift ideas for writers, readers […]
The summer holidays are drawing to a close, which means it’s almost time for the kids to go back to school. It seems fitting, therefore, to take a look at education-related idioms as the next in my series, following recent posts about weather and sport idioms. As is the case with all idioms, school idioms […]
The summer holidays are drawing to a close, which means it’s almost time for the kids to go back to school. It seems fitting, therefore, to take a look at education-related idioms as the next in my series, following recent posts about weather and sport idioms. As is the case with all idioms, school idioms […]
TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged. Today it covers a diverse range of topics in more than 100 languages. Not only are TED Talks videos entertaining, informative and thought provoking, but they’re also short (generally 18 minutes or less, with many under 10). Not surprisingly, the TED Talks […]
TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged. Today it covers a diverse range of topics in more than 100 languages. Not only are TED Talks videos entertaining, informative and thought provoking, but they’re also short (generally 18 minutes or less, with many under 10). Not surprisingly, the TED Talks […]
Home › Archive for Grammar › Page 3 Whilst proofreading several websites and documents recently, one of the common mistakes I came across involved conjunctions. Seeing as I haven’t written a grammar-related blog post for a while, I thought it would make a good topic for this week’s… In order not to confuse the reader, […]
Like many others, I was recently glued to my TV wondering who was going to be crowned MasterChef 2015. As well as making me feel hungry, watching the contestants create culinary masterpieces got me thinking about common idioms and other… Hot on the tails of my recent post on idioms about mums for Mother’s Day, this week’s […]
Out of the blue, the thought occurred to me the other day that it’s been 18 years – give or take a couple of weeks – since I set up my stall as a freelancer after working in-house for several years. It’s really quite hard to believe that it’s been that long since I took […]
Out of the blue, the thought occurred to me the other day that it’s been 18 years – give or take a couple of weeks – since I set up my stall as a freelancer after working in-house for several years. It’s really quite hard to believe that it’s been that long since I took […]
Like many others, I was recently glued to my TV wondering who was going to be crowned MasterChef 2015. As well as making me feel hungry, watching the contestants create culinary masterpieces got me thinking about common idioms and other phrases in English that are linked to cooking. There are actually a lot more than […]
Out of the blue, the thought occurred to me the other day that it’s been 18 years – give or take a couple of weeks – since I set up my stall as a freelancer after working in-house for several years. It’s really quite hard to believe that it’s been that long since I took […]
Out of the blue, the thought occurred to me the other day that it’s been 18 years – give or take a couple of weeks – since I set up my stall as a freelancer after working in-house for several years. It’s really quite hard to believe that it’s been that long since I took […]
Like many others, I was recently glued to my TV wondering who was going to be crowned MasterChef 2015. As well as making me feel hungry, watching the contestants create culinary masterpieces got me thinking about common idioms and other phrases in English that are linked to cooking. There are actually a lot more than […]
Like many others, I was recently glued to my TV wondering who was going to be crowned MasterChef 2015. As well as making me feel hungry, watching the contestants create culinary masterpieces got me thinking about common idioms and other phrases in English that are linked to cooking. There are actually a lot more than […]