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02/10/2026

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓!

And welcome to the final quarter of 2026!

We've now fully stepped into autumn and October is probably my favourite month of the year, as the days get cooler, the leaves turn the most gorgeous colours and are crunchy on the ground. And, I'm probably a bit biased with this, because it's my birthday month! 😅

September came and went in a flash and a LOT happened. So much it's quite hard to summarise in this little post, but I'll try.

The month began with spending time with a friend who was visiting from the USA. She's been here many times before and didn't need to do any of the usual sightseeing things, so we hung out and went to our favourite coffee shops and bakeries together.

September felt like a bit of a rollercoaster, mainly because two very opposing things happened - EC London, the language school that I had taught at for the last 16 years, closed quite suddenly which was very sad. And at the same time, I got accepted onto the Masters program I had applied for in August (!) and I started the course earlier this week! 😅

For the next 2 years, I'll be doing a part time master's in Language and Cultural Diversity at King's College London and I'm really excited to be a student again. If you'd asked me at the beginning of the year if I thought I'd be going back to uni again, I would have laughed and said 'no'. But I think the last few months have shown that things can change really quickly. So who knows what the rest of the year has in store for us all! 🥳

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 2026?
Let me know in the comments!

01/09/2026

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓!

Another month done and just 4 more left of 2026! With summer now coming to a close, people are starting to think about this last third of 2026 and what it will have in store for them.

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𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 (something) 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 (for someone)
to have something planned, prepared, or awaiting someone in the future

For example:
𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺
𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦.

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Here in the UK, August followed on from July with more heatwaves and for me, it was another mostly busy month. I finished my job at Kings, taught a few of my online students who were still having lessons over the summer, did a bit of teaching at EC London after my time at Kings was done and I also did some teaching at my pottery studio. It was a month of A LOT of teaching 🤪

But it wasn't all just work. As well as all the teaching, I started the month by having a stand at the festival where I live to sell my pottery creations and also meet more people where I live. It was a great day and I was really happy to see a lot of my creations find new homes!

Thankfully the end of August was a bit quieter for me, with a little less teaching and some time to rest. And I've started this month by taking a week off teaching to rest even more while I have a friend visiting me in London.

As well as resting and spending time with my friend, I've also started thinking about what I want these last 4 months of 2026 to be like for me. Mostly, it's to make sure I keep resting enough to have the energy to work on the projects I've had in my mind for so long but didn't have the time or energy to create!

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈?
Let me know in the comments!

31/08/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
/ˈmʌndeɪ ˈmjuːzɪŋz/

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆!

It's a bank holiday here in the UK today and I'm having a very slow morning taking it easy and also catching up on a bit of admin.

It's crazy to know that we're coming to the end of the summer here in the northern hemisphere and from tomorrow, we step into the final 1/3 of 2026. It feels like this year has just whizzed by and while the next 4 months will also fly by quickly, a lot can be done and achieved in that time.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 / 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬?
Let me know in the comments!

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musing (n) /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/
= thinking carefully about something or telling people your thoughts about it

03/08/2026

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕!

It's been a while since I last said hello! Life has been very full over the last couple of months and I've not had much time or energy to post, other than a couple of stories every so often.

In fact, I think this year so far has just been one busy month after another and I'm realising that if I don't 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 the time to do the things that are important, then they'll never happen! I don't see life slowing down any time soon, so I'm just embracing this new normal of feeling like I'm constantly on a treadmill going just a bit faster than is comfortable and hoping I can keep up 😅

Since my last little update at the beginning of June (!), a LOT has happened. For those of you who've been following my stories, you might have pieced together a little about what I've been up to.

June was a month of teaching at EC London and working with my private students online, trying to rest as much as possible while also spontaneously filling out a few application forms to throw my hat into ring for a couple of jobs for the summer. I didn't think anything would come of it, but how wrong I was!

Mid June, I got an email inviting me for an interview at King's College London to work on their summer pre-sessional programme and the same day of the interview they offered me a job, to start 2 weeks later on the 1st July.

That was almost 5 weeks ago and I can't believe I have just 2 weeks left of this summer programme. It's been a whirlwind of new information and learning and I've loved every minute of this new challenge. It's made me realise that for a while now, I've not challenged myself with something completely new and how important it is to stretch ourselves and step out of our comfort zones.

More to come soon, but for now - 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈?!
Let me know in the comments!

29/06/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
/ˈmʌndeɪ ˈmjuːzɪŋz/

Happy Monday everyone!

We're almost at the midway point between the first and second half of the year! And of course, it's a good time to think about how this first 6 months of the year has gone and how we want the second half to look like!

𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖.
𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒏𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏.

How was the first half of 2026 for you?
What are the things you'd like to work on / achieve for the rest of this year?

Let me know in the comments!

(I'll be answering these question for myself on Wednesday!)

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musing (n) /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/
= thinking carefully about something or telling people your thoughts about it

15/06/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
/ˈmʌndeɪ ˈmjuːzɪŋz/

Happy Monday everyone! Another week has rolled around.

Something I've been thinking about recently is how to juggle my time, to do all the things that I want to do, which is definitely not a short list! But as we're only gifted with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, sometimes it can be hard to squeeze everything in. This week's quote really is true:

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.

We can do anything we put our minds to, but generally time (and energy) is our limiting factor.

So how do we do the things that we want? Priortising and just being ok with the fact that it might not be possible to do everything that we want!

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒄?
Let me know in the comments!

musing (n) /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/
= thinking carefully about something or telling people your thoughts about it

08/06/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
/ˈmʌndeɪ ˈmjuːzɪŋz/

Sometimes in life, we experience disappointments. It's an inevitable part of being alive.

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚

I see disappointment quite a lot in my classrooms, in all the different levels that I teach but it's also something I experience in various aspects of my life.

While it's a very natural thing to feel, the most important thing is how we deal with it. Allow yourself time to feel those feelings but also start to think about what is causing the disappointment.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚?

While it's not easy to think and reflect upon, asking yourself these questions could help you learn and grow 🥳

musing (n) /ˈmjuːzɪŋ/
= thinking carefully about something or telling people your thoughts about it

03/06/2026

When it feels like time is moving fast, I hear a lot of my students saying a common English phrase wrong.

𝐌𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲:
Time is running ❌

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐬:
Time is flying ✅

So remember, the next time it feels like the days and weeks are moving fast, 'time is flying!'

01/06/2026

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞!

Just like that, another month has finished and we're now coming up to the halfway point of 2026! How crazy is that?!

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖?

May was another busy month with a lot happening and I have a feeling that this is the trend for this year! Aside from work, I spent a lot of time last month catching up with friends and family at the weekends, which was amazing and had the chance to do a lot of different things I'd not done before.

I went to a coffee festival in London and tried a lot of different types of coffee, tea and snacks! I also discovered the Chelsea in Bloom festival for the first time over in West London and it was great to see so many wonderful and artistic flower displays.

I also spent as much time as I could at my pottery studio and practicing the techniques I learnt while I was in Sicily the month before and also making some things for my first ever pottery show, which will happen this weekend. And last month my pieces that I made and decided to keep from the course in Sicily also arrived and I was so happy with how they turned out!

Summer made an appeararnce in London last month and we had about 10 days of very hot temperatures, in the low 30s for a few days, which is very unusual for May!

Thankfully the temperatures have cooled a bit in the last day or two and I'm looking forward to a few days of cooler temperatures and the ability to get some better sleep! 😅

While June will also be busy, I'm hoping to find a bit more time for myself to rest and also create more to help you all with your English! 🥳

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵?
Let me know in the comments!

18/05/2026

Have the temperatures in your country also been crazy this month? 🤔 - https://mailchi.mp/f1cc03f5c4b4/newsletter-learn-english-with-niva-8575776

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