A Disorderly Retirement
I need to make it clear from the start that I’m not in favour of the language police. I know the French have the Académie Française to preserve the purity of their language, but I suspect that no-one pays much attention to it. English is a wonderfully rich language and if people feel the need…
Put like that, it doesn’t sound very appealing. Still, as I look around this room, I count ten items of furniture, of which five are old and five are new. When I say ‘new’ I mean not second-hand. In fact, I bought one of those supposedly new items of furniture 43 years ago. Upcycling and…