“Compare and contrast” essays are central to my arsenal of 1st-year assignments, a more developed version of the old “One of these things is not like the others” game regularly featured on Sesame Street. Marking…
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I’m feeling quite pleased with myself for bringing the good weather back home with me — the whole time we were away, the temperature here rarely got into the low 20s, but this week it’s…
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Pater humoured me this morning and we were out of the hotel by 6:15, at King’s Cross and on the Piccadilly Line by 6:30, and at Heathrow by 7:30 where there were no long lines…
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I wrote this post yesterday morning, went to Publish, and realized the Wi-fi connection had been cut off partway through so I’d lost most of my work. Re-writing it with slightly less enthusiasm now that…
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What do I love about Paris, even in this sweltering, lassitude-inducing heat? !?!!!?Not the swollen feet which insist on Birkenstocks, even at the risk of disdainful looks (actually, the model I wear is v. popular…
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