It took me a few tries to find somebody to direct me to an ATM machine, as it seemed that ATM is not the correct term in this part of the world, and most people did not react to it. Come to think about it, it might have worked better if I pronounced the letter A as Ah, the...
The term “classic” isn’t often used to describe a camera made by Universal, but in this case it is appropriate. The 1946 Mercury II is, without a doubt, the camera for which this company will be remembered. The post-war revamp of the original Mercury Model CC, the Mercury II had ...
I suppose I’ve been mostly a teacher slash anti-academies activist. But thanks to the mostly term-time nature of those activities (although fear not,Inspiration Trust, I shall still be gunning for youright through summer… to infinity and beyond, if necessary) I am now on my holidays. En...
Even though I was anxious for this to go forward and at the possibility of it helping Emma, I felt such a sense of grief and overwhelming uncertainty. I was giving my precious daughter to strangers for possibly the next three years. She would never come home in those years. I would have...
Come on now, they weren’t reading from an encyclopedia, preparing to write a term paper and get it in before the deadline. This is not a bunch of intellectuals preparing to deliver a lecture in Sweden, in Latin no less. They were very simple, honest people, hard-working folks who ...
Someone had also come up with the verbtextoter(to write SMS messages on a mobile telephone), presumably something last year’s winner, aphonard– a pejorative term for someone who is glued to their mobile phone – does all the time. ...