When you buy a house you imagine filling the roll top bath with sumptuous, scented bubbles, and conjure up images of blades of grass bending under your bare feet in the garden as you hang out the washing. You imagine…
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During my English A Level, I remember a lesson about abstract nouns. Our teacher explained to us that they are things you cannot touch or sense, they have no physical existence. “Like democracy, bravery or sadness,” she said. She was…
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It’s around this time of year that my mood starts to flag a little. Waking up and gazing out of the window into the unending darkness feels uninspiring and gloomy; driving to work in lashing rain with the windscreen wipers…
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