As a linguist and a language teacher, I’ve always loved playing with letters and sounds, but lately it’s my son who’s been getting into rhyme. He’ll start conversations with, “Train, plane, crane… also cane! Cane sounds a bit like crane!” The other day, he enlisted my help to come up with words that rhyme with ‘caught’.…
Aren’t holidays grand? A little something extraordinary in the ordinary-ness that we call life. We had only been away for one night since March last year, but after celebrating a year of parenthood, we decided to take up the offer of some good friends and visit them in the tropics for a week before they…
Even a certified dessert addict has to eat savoury sometimes! I must have had this riff on a savoury scone recipe tucked away in the back of my mind somewhere, because on this lazy Sunday morning, and with lunchtime approaching, I was thinking “Some cheese and jalapeño scones would be nice…” but then it took…
