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A thank you with several reservations – The Blogger Recognition Award
I was recently nominated for ‘The blogger recognition award‘; I have never ‘accepted’ such awards because I’ve seen they can get out of hand and usually require ‘inflicting’ them on a number of other...
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Lurking in libraries and other aberrations
The only books on display in our home, the complete works of Dickens. ’Lurk’ was the latest, yesterday’s, word chosen by my blogosphere friend Iulia, a teacher of English in București among other...
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First day at school –‘coincidences’
I was so surprised to find myself sitting under a picture showing my high school and a brief history With that title it may seem odd if I tell you I’m sitting in Wetherspoon, one of a large chain of...
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English teaching and founding a Leo Club in Romania almost 25 years ago; fond...
Allstars members, all from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds themselves, gained many things from their involvement in the internet projects; the confidence to present their work to an audience of...
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English teaching with ‘A 21st century fairy tale’ and a rambunctious class
The ‘structure of a fairy tale’ as drawn in my notebook and copied from that to blackbosrd. Looking for misplaced documents for our forthcoming drive to Romania (mostly proof I had paid a speeding fine...
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‘Gems’ in the attic: 3 VHS tapes about email projects in English teaching...
Romanians are wonderful people but as far as the authorities are concerned if there’s the most difficult solution to a simple problem you can be pretty sure they will apply it. Being in the European...
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More gems from the ‘attic’ – English teaching in Romania
Finding 3 VHS tapes featuring aspects of my teaching of English in Romania a quarter of a century ago (post on 8th August), together with meeting two of my former pupils, were definitely the highlights...
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Writing for the Ilkley Literature Festival; more ‘gems’ but not from my attic
From Rocky Valley, Ilkley Moor, with Brocken Spectre (tap/click the pic to see it large). Photo by Bob Hamilton Although I have ‘performed’ at an event as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival...
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Words. Word a day. Will this post prompt a logomachy or two?
I rarely come across British English words in my everyday reading which I do not know, I suppose not surprising as I’ve been an avid reader for much of my life since I was three years old. However,...
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Rereading Huckleberry Finn & To Kill a Mockingbird; thank you Virginia!
I just downloaded The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, a little protest against Virginia’s banning of these two books. It is stupid and makes the task of people like me, who...
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