The English language is such a potion-pot, but not a potion-pot of a witch who knows what she’s doing, but a potion-pot of a seven-year-old when they just literally add random things to it from the garden and it inevitably becomes a bubbling mess of mud and the entrails of your backyard.

Funnily enough, I hated English in school before the tenth grade. I didn’t understand it, nothing made sense. There were so many rules and so many exceptions and not a lot seemed to be spelled the way it actually sounded. The bane of my existence (in the English language) is the word “manoeuvred”, I can’t seem to get it right. I get close, but over the years I’ve only managed to get the beginning down. It’s a word I rarely write non-digitally because I know that I need that spellcheck for it.

Grammar was difficult for me because I didn’t get it and moved around a lot, and so I lost a lot of foundational learning and there were things I should have learned in primary school that I didn’t learn until university. It was a chaotic confusion that I despised. And then I found out that people liked my stories. My essays were okay, but my stories earned me praise. And as mathematics became more complex, and I couldn’t keep up with that (mostly because of the turbulent childhood I had), and so English became my favourite subject. My favourite subject that I originally hated most, even more than geography.

I think I know what I need to know (I need to really for my job) but it’s interesting to reflect on how much I hated what underpins my passion. But, that’s because the English language is whack.

Not a lot of the above has anything to do with my agenda this week, but I couldn’t help myself after writing such a title. This week is going to be study-based again with some more fun with my close friends and family thrown in and hopefully the cool weather I had last week. And of course, writing. I have some more things planned for late in March and of course life is going to be a whirlwind in April, but there’s nothing special going on this week for me.