Blogs not quite flowing last night. Having had a not bad first week back after holiday, struggling a bit more this week. The Scottish greyness-that-lasts-mightily has set back in, rather than last week’s sunshine. It’s not quite C S Lewis’ ‘always winter and never Christmas‘ but the mood is a little in that direction – …
Category archives: Writing
Write of reply
Here I am, chugging away at the blog, and all of a sudden, there’s two comments in a couple of days. Someone, nay, two somebodies, are reading what I’ve written! Now I know this is part of the point of a blog. You can have lovely conversations about the same things – or violently disagree …
You’ve got a Friend
Time for some mention of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” – a TV show surely dedicated to people who love alliteration. I’m probably one of the few people in the Western world who didn’t watch “Friends”, the long-running US comedy. I therefore never saw Matthew Perry in the show, and so when he turned …
I gotta use words
A little light tidying at work to finish the day: English language teaching textbooks And yes, I couldn’t resist keeping a few myself. Some are collectors’ items in their own right, interesting now for what they reveal about life at the time they were created, as well as how people thought we should learn. Picture …
This year’s catch phrases
Having spent a week with 4 children, felt the need to capture a few of this year’s catch phrases from them. As we now see them (and their parents) about once a year, what they can say and do moves on a lot. We continue to use last year’s phrases, brush them off and bring …