It’s that dreaded time of year when the sound of the doorbell of an evening probably means someone wants some money. First it was the ‘Ebouers’ – dustmen. They haven’t been round for a couple of years,  probably because when a separate charge for...

For those who are fed up with me banging on about swine ‘flu and the vaccine please  don’t read on, but for anyone interested, I can recommend watching these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0JqQyl09zQ They are in Catalonian Spanish but with...

Thinking of a topic for this post is proving rather difficult, so I’ll just ramble on a bit and see what happens. The most interesting news is that we have a visitor from America, a friend of Jay’s, who has finally made it over to see us. She stayed...

Here’s another poem showing the problems with English pronunciation. It wasn’t until we started teaching English that CC and I realised just how difficult it is to help foreigners to speak  a language that is so thoroughly UNphonetic with so few...

The English classes started again this term but, so far, CC and I are off to a rather slow start. Most of her group are taking late holidays so the most ’students’ she has had amounts to two so far: last week no-one turned up! My beginners’ group now...