Learning to Read
I work in Education, and I thought it would be nice to do a post that talks about the way children are taught to read in primary schools. There are...
Shakespeare-Bill Bryson/Book Review
[caption id="attachment_2500" align="alignleft" width="300"] Shakespeare - 'Comedyes & Tragedyes'[/caption] I was watching the programme ‘Antiques Roadshow’ this evening, and an interesting item was discussed; a little booklet written by an...
Naming a Cat
There are challenges most large in our lives today, Some are steep like the side of a cliff. It may have begun in the past long ago, When they penned...
A Children’s Treasury of Milligan/Book Review
Firstly, I want to mention that I love Spike Milligan. He was a comedian, musician, poet, playwright, actor and writer. A man of many talents. He was the co-creator, writer...
Learning the Lingo
As I've mentioned in recent posts, I've been learning to speak French at an adult learning centre since September. The course is interesting and I've learnt a great deal. I've...
Language Learning/Digital Dialects
I was attending my french language class today and we were counting numbers up to 20. Our tutor emphasised the fact that when you begin the 11 for onze, 12 for...
Podged up to the Eyeballs!
The English language is full of wonderful and downright weird phrases. My grandmother, after eating a very large dinner would exclaim that she couldn’t possibly eat any more as she...
A Snippet of Shakespeare
A while back, I took an English course, which helped immensely in the search for jobs, over the last few years, and still today. At the beginning of the 30-weeks, the...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte/Book Review
I've just finished reading Jane Eyre for the third time and once again I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a book that is told through a first person narrative, and...
The Old Curiosity Shop/Book Review
I have just finished reading the most wonderful book. The old curiosity shop by Charles Dickens. This has got to be my favourite novel of his, which is difficult to...
