This is another post in the Russian Dolls format. In this post, we’re going to find out what sort of personality we have by answering a simple question…
What If Women Ruled The World?
What If Women Ruled The World? That’s the title of a show bringing together actresses and experts to explore whether women can come up with better solutions to the planet’s problems than men. I absolutely do think the world would be a better place if women ruled it. I absolutely do. I think there would … Continue Reading
How to give your email or website address correctly on the phone
Quite often, in personal or professional life, it may be necessary to give someone your (or your company’s) email or website or blog address. This post helps you do it in a clear and correct way to avoid misunderstanding and waste of time and energy. Let’s start with web adresses and we’ll then move on … Continue Reading
Confusables 11: The Importance of Punctuation
In the Confusables series, we talk about English words and expressions that are easily confused with one another because of similarities in spelling, pronunciation, and/or meaning. Punctuation marks may be more important than you think…
World’s oldest art gallery: Cave of Niaux
A few days ago I visited a world’s oldest art gallery: Cave of Niaux in Ariège (18500-10500 bc). It is a huge place, which has remained almost as in the Magdalenian period. Just some small paths were made for visitors. There are only 20 visitors per tour. We walk with a torch, in darkness, and … Continue Reading
London: three days, three visits
Two weeks ago, with our daughter, we were in London for three days. Each of us chose a place to visit…
Writing Workshop: Why oh why?
In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English.
Here we have a poorly written text with quite a few mistakes…
Confusables 10: contractions
What is the difference between these sentences? …
Clothes or souls?
When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls! ― Ted Grant, Canadian photojournalist Do you agree?