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To lock yourself out / in
Photo credit: monstermakethis.com On Sunday night we came back from Green Man music festival in Wales. My husband went to take some of the stuff to our flat while I continued unloading the car. In a...
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Jumpy
Photo credit: emilysmucker.com Last Friday was indeed eventful and provided rich pickings in terms of words and phrases for this blog. After a somewhat tough week my husband and I went to one of our...
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Can I squeeze past?
Photo credit: dailytelegraph.com.au First of all, Happy New Year to the loyal readers and subscribers of this blog – it’s great to have you on board. I’ll do my best to keep it up in 2014. Second… it’s...
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I was wondering…
Photo credit: dailymail.co.uk Today I realised that I never wrote about one single English phrase that I find to be the most useful in everyday life. A life-saver of a phrase, even! Not to brag, but I...
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To pocket-call
Photo credit: cnn.com Almost every dinner at our place is cooked and eaten to the soundtrack of Marc Riley’s show on BBC 6 Music. His today’s show, apart from the good music, as usual, had a rare...
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To lock yourself out / in, continued
Photo credit: Getty Images I wrote about these verbs almost a year ago, but today an opportunity to use them presented itself. Yesterday I went for a run and took my keys off the keyholder. Today when...
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Learning the ropes
Photo credit: toledozoo.org The past couple of weeks have been really hectic – I’ve been trying to finish translation of the third book on time, then I went to Amsterdam on a short break and now it’s...
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Toe-curling
Photo credit: baby.about.com Yesterday I got a text message from my friend to say that she has had a baby and I was welcome to visit her at the hospital. I popped in during the visiting hours (rushed...
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Losable… and other -able adjectives
Photo credit: funnyjunk.com What an eventful week… Yesterday I taught my first Russian class at a language school – it was a new experience for me as so far I have only taught individual students. It...
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Could you watch over my stuff?
Photo credit: gourmetravelista.com A couple of weeks ago I was having a tea in a café between my lessons, and a girl sitting opposite suddenly said ‘Excuse me, could you watch over my stuff?’ I nodded...
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That’s a different kettle of fish
Photo credit: rosekentishkitchen.blogspot.com Monday was a bank holiday in the UK and we benefited from some more time to spend together as a family. This also meant that we didn’t have to cram all the...
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I’ll leave you to it / I’ll let you get on with it
Photo credit: © H. Armstrong Roberts/CORBIS We have a very friendly lady who lives in the same building and, considering I go out for a walk with Alisa at least twice a day, we bump into her quite...
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