The Present is a gift

I read this little gem in a blog this week.  It was a throw-away comment on a business blog, but one that struck a chord with me.  The translation all depends on whether you start the sentence with an indefinite article or a definite one.  (I’ll bet that just...

Eva – the simple life

This week my thoughts turned to a wonderful lady I knew as a child.  Until I was 10, we lived in a small, quiet, backwater village in Kent, in the middle of the hop-gardens and apple orchards of The Garden of England.  One of the village characters, although one of...