Ok, so Winnie-The-Pooh is not quite a sacred text in the way the bible is, but it would come a very close second for many of us. Therefore, just like the bible, we can cope when it is used as the basis for teaching us principles of life (Pooh and the Philosophers by John [...]
It’s Virtual Festivals festival award time and Greenbelt is up in a couple of cateogories. If nothing else it deserves to get the best toilet award, just for the ones down near messy space. Incentive to vote, you get entered into a draw to win tickets to every winning festival.
One was born into a family
Then was joined by two and three
Five were a family only for a couple of years
Four became extended when one left home and married
Two were newly weds going through ups and downs
Then two became three when the baby was born
Not so long afterwards three became two
When one fell in love [...]
I have recently read through my my fathers biography on his web site. Ok, it’s a marketing tool….a kind of abbreviated CV but it is also a summary of who he is in many ways. Reading through I realised not only how incredibly proud I am of my father but exactly how much of a [...]
Today is the memorial service at the cathedral for Bobby Robson. It is an invite only affair and Palace Green is pretty much sealed off at the moment.
It was surreal needing to pop into the nearest appropriate venue to do some photocopying / printing and finding that I was entering a security zone. The [...]
Arrrrggggghhhhhhh.
Just had to let that out. A friend of mine once commented that I always seem to find the complicated way of doing everything. Certainly seems like that at the moment.
In a simple world the first career development loan application would have gone through ok. As it is the other provider who the second application [...]
Today is Eid el-Fitr and the neighbours are celebrating. There are loads of really happy children and adults outside celebrating…..this is cool.
Also the day of the Great North Run. As I was heading off to do some field work this morning the train was full of runners heading off. Some interesting information gleened about Soreen [...]
The conference season is starting and in the mist of a global recession the debates about spending cuts and the welfare state are taking centre stage. With an election only months away, and a disillusioned electorate this year matters. Radical changes and solutions are needed to get us out of the hole which has been [...]
Interesting new blog has emerged at “head into the heavens“. They’ve got me on their blogroll which is kind of them and I might even be able to put 50p on who I think it is producing this one, but I’m not certain. Whatever, the point is this is a vibrant blog which is seeking [...]
The 1944 Butler Act introduced the tripartite system, it was a system intended to be based on meritocracy, giving three types of different school with parity of esteem.
As somebody who has lived, taught and had a child educated in an area where the local education authority have retained the grammar school system, (even if now [...]