Yeah... I've been AWOL for a while. Sorry! Life got busy this summer and I actually spent over a month without internet, so.... My laptop is also on its last legs. I'm waiting for a new one to arrive, but in the meantime, I don't dare use this one too much. It has a tendency to freeze the screen, which is extremely frustrating when trying to type something.
That apart, I'm hoping that I'll be blogging on a fairly regular basis throughout September. Alongside preparing for university, sorting out finances for university, reviewing everything I've done over the past eight years in Latin and Greek, rewriting a book for a competition and getting a TEFL qualification. (It might all be on my to-do list, but the likelihood of getting all that done is... not great.) The upside is that I'll at least be home for that, and I'm unlikely to be thinking in French.
I'm currently in Scotland. The weather is appalling, which is only to be expected, but everybody here is extremely friendly and Hadrian's Wall and a load of old Roman forts aren't all that far off, so there's lots of interesting stuff around.
And just because I'm nice like this and have an obsession with unusual words (and etymology), here's something to add to your vocabulary:
nomophobia
Google chrome is telling me it doesn't recognise this word, which really doesn't surprise me. If you don't recognise it either, nomophobia is apparently the word for a fear of being separated from your mobile phone (or cell phone, as I believe you Americans say). "No" -- self explanatory; "mo" -- for "mobile"; "phobia" -- from the Greek word for fear.
I'll try and have something up for next week. And I'll start working on the grammar part of the blog soon. It's just rather difficult to do without it turning into a text-book style thing that only academics or grammar Nazis would find interesting to read.
Toodle pip!
(No, we don't normally say that.)
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