It's freezing cold here but in the UK they are getting Arctic tempertatures. How to describe such weather conditions? Temperatures fall, drop, plummet below zero... freezing nights, biting winds, snow-white landscapes, icy roads ... Click on the image and get the latest weather reports in audio, video and ice-cold words.
Some of you probably think that the new decade will start next year, but that's the recurring dilemma we have every 10, 100, or 1000 years. In this cartoon by Chris Riddell from The Observer you see the remains of the last decade, called the 'noughties', from 'nought' (and also playing with the word "naughty"). The two teenagers symbolise the new decade. Why? There is currently much debate about what we should call the new decade, and one suggestion is "the teens" (the terrible teens? The terrific teens? Time will tell!) But what do we call the new year? Two thousand and ten? Two thousand ten? Twenty ten? Twenty-o-ten? Two-0-one-0? The Seattle Times has a possible answer, and if you listen to this report from from KCBS in San Francisco you'll find out what some Americans think.
"Once in a blue moon" is an idiom that means that something happens not very often.
Click on the image and you'll see real questions and answers from attorneys and witnesses in the USA courtrooms.
Back to crime...
Polluting should also be a crime, so let's focus on the Copenhagen's climate conference being held these days, and the controversy generated by the "warmists" on the one hand -those who believe in climate change and would like governments to pass strict laws to stop it, and the skeptics on the other -who think data is being manipulated to exaggerate the threat of global warming (also known as the "Climategate")In the meantime, I have to buy a car -how could I live without one?- but the only thing I am offered is a petrol-powered old dinosaur ... and they call it 'green' .
