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    Learning to Read

    Pip / 20th October 2020 / 12 Comments

    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 many valuable resources…

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    Shakespeare-Bill Bryson/Book Review

    Pippa / 19th August 2020 / 6 Comments

    I was watching the programme ‘Antiques Roadshow’ this evening, and an interesting item was discussed; a little booklet written by an anonymous writer during Elizabethan times. It was extremely valuable, mainly because it contemporaneously…

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    Naming a Cat

    Pip / 2nd April 2020 / 0 Comments

    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 the first hieroglyph.…

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    A Children’s Treasury of Milligan/Book Review

    Pippa / 24th February 2020 / 2 Comments

    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 and main cast…

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    Learning the Lingo

    Pippa / 19th February 2020 / 0 Comments

    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 also been using…

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    Language Learning/Digital Dialects

    Pippa / 3rd February 2020 / 1 Comment

    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 douze, 13 for…

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    Podged up to the Eyeballs!

    Pippa / 15th January 2020 / 3 Comments

    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 was “Podged up…

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    A Snippet of Shakespeare

    Pip / 11th January 2020 / 0 Comments

    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 tutor gave us…

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte/Book Review

    Pip / 4th January 2019 / 0 Comments

    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 deals with the…

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  • Unqualified Bias,  Words

    The Old Curiosity Shop/Book Review

    Pip / 20th December 2018 / 0 Comments

    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 say considering that…

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    The Vets

    Pip / 12th November 2018 / 2 Comments

    This is a true story. Dexter’s Cough   My dog has been forlorn this week, Because he’s had a cough. Yet still his normal sprightly self, Loud and going Woof!   His nose…

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    My Son

    Pippa / 27th August 2018 / 8 Comments

    This is a letter to you dear son to tell you how proud you have made me this week. You revised so hard for your exams, without too much prompting on my part.…

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