Noah CooperPieces of eight – DeusXFlorida – CC-BY-2.0 When I was a kid we had a variety of different animals around the house. It was never exactly a menagerie, but at one time or another we had some fish, a couple of vicious budgies, dogs and a couple...
Here in Brazil, June 12th is the equivalent of February 14th in the UK. Back home we have St. Valentine’s Day where everybody in a relationship is guilted into spending a fair whack of their money on flowers, chocolates cards and dinner. A couple...
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far way… I used to run for an athletics club. I wasn’t ever any good, but I did like the idea of being the next Seb Coe or Steve Cram. Then I found the joys and delights in beer, clubs and countless other...
A long, long time ago… We have had a slight change to our bedtime routine recently. Ever since Mr. T was a few months old we would give him something to eat, then a bath and finally a bedtime story before it was lights out and hopefully...
Do you know what is one of the most powerful tools for every small business? Local SEO! It is estimated that 4 out of 5 consumers use search tools for local information. This means your business, no matter the size, should always be optimized for...
Owning a car is a luxury. Don’t get me wrong. It is a wonderful experience to have a car but it is something that comes with a wide variety of responsibilities. There are a variety of costs that one must account for in their car ownership life in...
It’s been a while since I posted anything related to the language developments of my son, Mr. T. First we had the World Cup when all I wrote about was in some way football related. Then I took a month off to get back some of my motivation for...
If I had to choose one comedy to watch again and again, it would be ‘The Life of Brian’. For me it is almost the perfect film with its satire of religion, politics, education and modern life. There is an alien spaceship chase, intelligent wordplay...
Brazil may be a huge country, but Brazilians love making everyone and everything in it as small as possible. One thing I noticed early on when learning Portuguese was the prevalence of the suffix –inho or –inha. They use it on the end of words to...
I read a very instructive post recently by Multilingual Living called ‘4 reasons why a bilingual child answers in the “wrong” language.’ My almost-4-year-old son replies to me in the ‘wrong’ language. By ‘wrong language’ I mean that I speak to him...