2025-09-12
10 分钟Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native Podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 34, day 5 of your English Fiver Day, the second season.
I'm here every day of the working week, that's Monday to Friday,
to help you in building your habit of daily dunking into the English language.
Little steps on a regular basis can take you a very long way.
Now all week we have been looking at different items of vocabulary and today we're going to bring it all together and review with one big story.
This is a personal story and I do hope that you will find it interesting and entertaining.
So let's begin.
Caught short, a mum on the edge.
It was the fifth baking hot day in a row and I was clinging to my sanity by a thread.
You know the kind of day I mean.
The air felt thick and sluggish.
My clothes were sticking to me and the children, oh,
the children, were cranky, tired and loud, very loud.
The end of term was approaching and I was spinning so many plates I felt like a circus act on the verge of disaster.
Between teacher gifts, planning summer camps,
confirming after-school clubs for next term, arranging childcare, juggling finances,
coordinating holidays to avoid paying triple the price,
plus trying to tie up all the loose ends at work, I was done.
Absolutely spent.