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Who decorates your home?

23 Oct 2025

Anybody ever watched the British Sitcom called ‘Keeping Up Appearances’? The main character was Hyacinth Bucket, which Hyacinth insisted was pronounced ‘bouquet’ because it sounded better than bucket. The...

Not nuts for the 99% because of the 1%

16 Oct 2025

A 28-year-old woman claims she could have died during a flight she took. She says she has a severe nut allergy and that the mere smell of nuts could...

Odd English words are doing the rounds

09 Oct 2025

The English language is a beautiful thing if you hear it spoken correctly by native English speakers. Most will use Cambridge and Oxford educated individuals as prime examples of...

Driving is not easy unless you enjoy it

03 Oct 2025

Being able to have easy access to a ride is very important. Being mobile is very important. Anywhere there’s a metro station is perfect everywhere in the world, access...

Tough discipline at school is good

26 Sep 2025

You wonder where children get their bad habits from and then you hear about a school headmaster who is trying to turn a troubled school around only to be...

Remember, ChatGPT is not your brain

19 Sep 2025

After calculators had been out for some time, people began to have trouble with simple maths. They would reach for the calculator even to add 10 to 35. To...

It’s not the problem but how you react to it

12 Sep 2025

I swear the stress I’m under is one day going to kill me, says almost everyone under stress. But there’s stress and then there’s stress. Some people think they’re...

The challenges those growing older face

05 Sep 2025

The saying is that the eligible pool of life partners gets smaller and smaller as you get older. This is not only absolutely true but it also applies to...

Try not to mispronounce names

28 Aug 2025

If you don’t have an English sounding name, the chances are that, in a Western country, it's almost always mispronounced. Take my name, for instance. I think it's easy...

What’s obsolete and what’s not these days

14 Aug 2025

Working in an office 30 years ago was vastly different from what it’s like now. In fact, working in one 30 years ago was hugely different from working in...

Birjees Hussain

She has more than 10 years of experience in writing articles on a range of topics including health, beauty, lifestyle, finance, management and Quality Management.

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