Language learning
Duolingo for Italian. Weird that Set 10 Stories were so much more difficult than Set 9. Why? It's good to be reminded of the difficulties...
Duolingo for Italian. Weird that Set 10 Stories were so much more difficult than Set 9. Why? It's good to be reminded of the difficulties...
I won't name the, but my word, the property management company from whom I rent are less useful than the proverbial chocolate teapot....
Great start to the day. Could hardly get my socks on. Funny, but not funny! Listening to the sententious rhetoric on the BBC. It strikes...
The house supposedly needs rewiring; getting it arranged is like wading though treacle. A truly minor botheration in the grand scheme of...
My least favourite time of year: no significant other. Might fly to Turkey; no celebrations. Dominic Raab on BBC, so may have to turn it...
The existential pain is not acute but it is constant and there is no remedy for it. I saw a clipping from a local New Zealand paper dated...
Our species is bound for quick extinction. Blather on my news-feed - hopeless inadequacy. Everything seems to be in perpetual confusion....
All with no answer or a glibness that would have been replaced by grim silence. Afghanistan: where did all these Taliban come from? Were...
So unusual, but I have been feeling tired a lot. Weird really; no apparent cycle, but nonetheless... They are talking about Education and...
A pundit just said, 'When the US ends..' Then added, 'its mission.' So glad for the clarification. I told Rossella yesterday that I had...
I never get up this late. Then found no bread and no muesli in the house. Unfriended a fair few people on Facebook yesterday, thinking...
YouGov and I-say sent me two about retail. Do people actually THINK about such things? My astrologer housemate says Mars and Mercury in...
It is so distorted. YouGov send surveys about my retail habits - I don't have any! The assumptions of the majority, or of the ruling cdre...
Both Plymouth and Afghanistan are producing diatribes and whimpers. Lessons are never learned. Or so it seems. As I said before, I just...
And setting a target of 1000 followers is pie in the sky when you die, I fear! May have reached the point where this image has been...
I hate this preponderance of the display of 'nice' art. And thousands supply the market. I do not want art to espouse the opposite pole,...
Sometimes the carping is just part of the background noise, sometimes more agitated and angry. Though the cowboy is a common enough trope...
I looked at the Babylonian utter blandness and wondered why on earth anyone bothers? Just adding these images in the number order they...
Education, education, education... I think not. What a mess. Again. I know and understand the difficulties created by the pandemic and...
When MPS are at selection stage, they should be asked 'Are you corruptible?' I guess it's easy enough to carp, not having ever been...