Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. A special thanks to Chuy Darío, my very talented sound partner. If you hear a difference in the recording, it is because of him. Thank you, Chuy. Today, About the Umbrella.

This has been a long time coming. Gordon Sumner, a.k.a Sting, former member of the Police and once English teacher has an umbrella that I cannot get my mind off. The image of that umbrella has accompanied me over the yea ...