( My courtesy car )

First, you'll want to hear about my ( week at home. )

Today, I spent £31.50 on walking 'sandals' for my Spanish holiday, £12.99 on another pair of normal sandals (to replace the current ones when they die in approx. 10 years) and £2 on a 'pair' of comfortable trainer-like shoes that lots of women wear. ( Do you want to hear more? )

From our company's new report template guidance:

“practise” is a verb, “practice” is a noun. If in doubt, substitute the words advice / advise into your sentence to see which is correct: they follow the same grammatical rules but are less frequently confused because they do not sound the same when spoken.
My God, I wish I'd known that sooner! So ( Read more... )

OK, now it's got really bad. Im reading the news this morning (the DC German one) and they have the verb 'cruisen' - to cruise, as in with a car, in style. Also, on the radio, they keep talking about 'Nordic Walking', prompting the new verb 'walken' (the past participle is gewalkt, yes...) which just puts my German into the 'damn good' category ( Read more... )