You may think I’m 10 days too late, but if you were following the old Julian calendar you would realise…
While 6 January is Christmas Eve in Russia, here in Western Europe the day after twelfth night is known as…
By false friends I don’t mean those individuals who fail to show up for you birthday party. I’m talking about…
“Last Summer I went glamping with Jedward and ate brunch with a spork.” If I went back in time to…
The 6th of December is Saint Nicholas day, widely celebrated in Europe as a gift giving holiday. St Nicholas was…
I love idioms; in fact I’m crazy about them. In my previous life as a teacher of English as a…
I was surprised to read in the newspaper today that English footballer Joey Barton gave a press conference in a…
‘That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet’, said Shakespeare’s Juliet to Romeo. The…
When most of us think of Latin, what springs to mind is a long-since-dead language that perhaps is no longer…