Over here in the UK, we like to choose at least one New Year’s resolution to help us make improvements to our lives, our health or sometimes even our behaviour throughout the year to come. However, choosing a New Year’s resolution is often the easy part, it is keeping » Read More
The Traditional English Christmas Dinner ‘Select a goose with a clean, white skin, plump breast and yellow feet: if these latter are red, the bird is old. Should the weather permit, let it hang for a few days: by so doing, the flavour will be very much improved.’ So » Read More
Here in England we have what is known as a temperate climate. This means that we don’t have weather that is either unbearably hot or unbearably cold. We do, however, have four distinct seasons, each of which offers us plenty of opportunity to indulge in our favourite national pastime, » Read More
Anyone who has heard a cuckoo make its distinctive call or a steam train blow its whistle will have an idea what the word ‘onomatopoeia’ means. Put simply onomatopoeic words are words, which sounds like the thing they represent. If we look at our two examples above, a cuckoo’s » Read More
For those of us who love playing them it is great news to hear that board games are undergoing an astonishing revival. Although still fun to play at home around a winter fire or on a rainy summer evening, board games are now available to play outside in parks » Read More