A little note on Russian 
I'm sitting in my garden, the sun is shining and for the first time this year it really feels like summer. I had my first Russian lesson yesterday after ages of not speaking Russian. It wasn's as bad as I thought it would be - I understood everything perfectly, but my fluency when speaking is pretty bad. Speaking of Russian I had a bit of an epiphany (sorry to all non Russian speakers, this may be a bit boring) on Friday.
Now when Russians say "I'm going now, bye!" they use the rather illogical "я пошёл/пошла" which literally translates as "I'm gone". This has puzzled me as to why they say this: they are still standing in front of you, but they are telling you they've already gone. I put this down to the usual Russian madness that you just have to accept. However, at work on Friday my boss was leaving and she actually said "Right, that's it ladies, that's me gone". I couldn't believe it! We sometimes say the exact same illogical thing in English. It just had never occured to me before.
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