Mentalechoes

I think perhaps after nine years living here in The Netherlands that I might actually have been passively integrated into Dutch life. I was watching the UEFA Cup football match between The Netherlands and Romania with genuine excitement and hopeful anticipation that my team would be the winner at the end. This from someone that [...]

I heard it again today at work, this word “Australianism”. The first time I heard it I thought the person was geographically challenged and didn’t know how to say “Australia” properly. But then on hearing it again, I realised that this person was actually trying to tell me something. What, I had no idea, so [...]