Living in Spain

“Shades of meaning,” my English friend said, as I’ve heard so many others say over the years. “No other language has as many different shades of meaning as English. No other language is as rich as ours, or has as many words.”
He reminded me of Bill Bryson, author of the biased [...]

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“It’s spot on. I love it!” says my client.
“I’m glad you like it,” says I, knowing from long experience that he does indeed like it now, but his wife hasn’t seen it yet, or his daughter, or her boyfriend, or his brother-in-law, or the woman next door, or the guy who cleans the [...]

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One of my favourite occupations is doing nothing. Sometimes I get out of bed early to get a head start, and spend the entire day wandering about doing nothing, taking a break before lunch to go into town to sit in my local and do nothing, and then back to the house again to continue [...]

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The format worked itself out years ago, and it has never changed.
“I’m off to the supermarket this morning. Would you like to come?” she says.
I wouldn’t. I have better things to do with my time on a Saturday morning. One of them is staying in bed, but that ceased to be an [...]

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