•He patted my head, and inquired:“Is there anything particular you want?” •She stroked her fingers through my hair, and said:“Of course there is a Santa Clause.” •He was squeezing my wrist so hard that ...
It featured a safe, a huge set of drawers and plenty of coat hangers so I could hang everything up. When I found my clothes were a bit creased, I just trotted down the corridor to the ironing room where I ironed the clothes myself. There is a dry cleaning and pressing service, but...
California made many other errors, but its decision to get single-deck trains is correct in its use case: the high-speed trainset market is almost entirely single-deck, and the issue of platform length is not relevant to captive high-speed rail since the number of stations that need high-...
Is this a sign that it is time to get out. At the very least, as house prices around the world climb to everloftier heights, and more and more people jump on to the buy-to-let ladder, it is time to expose some of the fallacies regularly trotted out by so many self-appointed ...
Having previously built a house in the south of Sri Lanka and strenuously avoided any well-meaning attempts from strangers to come and stay, he now relishes foisting these dodgy dossers onto us. I’ve absolutely no idea why. My initial response to any request I receive is to delete the ...
“What do you want here? That is the way out,” said the girl impatiently to Sami, pointing so plainly to the gate that Sami would have understood the meaning of her words even if her language had been foreign. But it was surely German, and he had understood it all very well, althou...
meaning that the description in Pyle based on a population 100 miles distant may not be correct for your own local population. One of the best tools a bird bander can have, as they squint at a bird and wonder whether its iris is “red-brown” or “maroon” and whether that is even ...
Yet again, well-meaning but paternalistic and patronizing ideas are pushed of what it is to be ‘working class’ – in this case, the idea that working-class men cannot be expected to recognise or interrogate their own chauvinism or that of others, or that their doing so is somehow ...
Both knew it could be their final game at Gillette Stadium. But both also wanted to have something to play for a week later, meaning they needed a win. The reminiscing could wait. "We're not gonna be all boo-hooing out there on the field," Slater said. "We got ...
such competitions are less than friendly. I had a very well meaning coworker, a well-educated suburban professional, who was very surprised when I describe to her that the urban Chinese church that I served did not welcome the “immigrant friendly policies” of the Obama administration. After ...