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New Year resolution number 1

My French language teacher regularly scrawled the word médiocre across my homework. Médiocre as in, poor, mediocre, indifferent, middling, ordinary, ropy. (Come on, Miss J. which one was it? I personally lean towards middling, but ropey… Moi? Mais non! Jamais! See, je still remembaire, et je snappe ma fingaires at vous Madame!

Apart from teaching English to A level I don’t consider myself professionally qualified in much at all. I’m largely self-taught. I do some things

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