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Comedy and Me
In real life I laugh way more than I cry. Getting a tear out of me is very difficult. But there is always a giggle or a chuckle bubbling under the surface ready to pop out at any time. At movies,...
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Fifty Shades of Taylor
Ian Somerhalder gets my vote for Christian Grey Yesterday I mentioned my favourite fanfiction about Fifty Shades of Grey and it is the trilogy rewritten from the point of the bodyguard, Taylor. He is a...
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Ian Somerhalder for Christian Grey
The second most popular topic on my blog is anything to do with E.L James’ Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. So for those fans, here comes the first of two post on it today. My vote is for Ian Somerhalder...
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Searching for Sugar Man
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, Rodriguez was the soundtrack to my life. His songs were playing as I fell in love, demonstrated against apartheid, suffered my first heartbreak. They...
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Alison – I have life
I am proud to have among my friends a wonderful woman called Alison, who cheated death and fought for victory for rape survivors everywhere. Alison was on her way home when she was attacked by two...
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120 DVD movies available for loan and to keep
Shawshank Redemption -my favourite movie of all time This post is for all my students, past and present. Below is a list of DVDs I have available for loan or for you to keep. All are original and...
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Meet Cute
A meet cute is a convention of romantic comedies in which two potential romantic partners meet in a contrived way in unusual or comic circumstances. A staple of the romantic genre, the technique...
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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
My favourite poem of all time THOU still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our...
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Longman Photo Dictionary
I love Longman dictionaries and this one is a favourite. It comes with two CDs, pronunciation help for all the words and thousands of pictures arranged into categories. Below each category are...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
I have had a few students asking me where the saying ‘Tinker tailor soldier spy’ comes from. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 movie of the 1974 John Le Carre novel by the same name. There is a...
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Interesting book of the day
Some books have more impact on me than others. This is one of those books. It is called Our of the Darkness and is the story of Mary Ellen Wilson. In short, in 1873 there was an American Society for...
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Idioms – Bunny boiler
Meaning An obsessive and dangerous female, in pursuit of a lover who has spurned her. Origin The expression ‘bunny boiler’ derives from the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, written by James Dearden and...
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Book Recommendation – Britspeak
I don’t often recommend books but this one is almost a must for all Swedish speakers of English. It is written by Simon Francis who is an English speaker living in Malmö. It is written in a friendly...
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Book Recommendation – Common Mistakes in English
Common Mistakes in English takes more than 550 examples of typical errors for example, words that are often confused, misused, or used with the wrong preposition and offers a correct version and...
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Free legal dictionary
available from domstolsverket It is a nice book, updated in July 2010 and with almost all the words you need if you work in the legal system. You can download a PDF version or order a printed...
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Devilish Damon Salvatore
This is for all fellow fans of the CW series, The Vampire Diaries, to celebrate the season 4 finale. And it is especially for Delena shippers because Damon finally got his girl! And we got a bit of...
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The Wire
I have said it before but I will say it again. To my mind the best television series EVER is The Wire. It went largely under the radar and never won a major award but it blows everything else I have...
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Book Recommendation – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak.[1]Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany, a place and time when the narrator notes he was extremely busy. It describes a...
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