Smothered by the expanding Twatosphere.
Timmeh
Please note that the twat should not be confused with their silly but benign near-namesake, the twit. Totally different beasts. In the course of an online meander, I came across…
Timmeh
A new era in classroom behaviour management beckons.
In a controversial online statement, hardline chalkface veterans are calling for more radical methods to be introduced in schools, in order to manage (sic) the growing anti-social and disruptive behaviour…
Hair’s to a surprisingly smooth shave!
I recently unearthed an old Philips electric razor that I had received as a Christmas gift aeons since. Although I’m accustomed to wet shaving these days, (I’m a committed Harry’s…
Puppet passion.
Reader warning! This post explores concepts that may offend or cause distress to those of a narrow-minded or sensitive disposition. In matters of the heart, I have an unusual confession…
A supermarket bromance.
This post includes several conversations in Spanish. I have included an English translation for the benefit of non-hispanophones. One of the highlights of an otherwise mundane existence is my friendship,…
A footballing icon and an inspirational English teacher to boot.
He was a flamboyantly gifted footballing maverick and off the pitch he was also known for being a snappy dresser, an accomplished Elvis Presley impersonator and a real ladies man.…
An orthographical outrage!
Or why the English don’t speak foreign. As is well documented, the inhabitants of these fair isles stubbornly resist the learning of other languages. As a languages teacher, I am…
How I stumbled into Teacherdom.*
*The realm or sphere of teachers. It wasn’t until my final exams at university loomed that I finally began to ponder what career options the study of European literary giants…
My odyssey to Teacherdom.
Down the pub version. I was conceived at the climax of a “group session” during a hedonistic music festival in the 1960s. My subsequent birth had been both a painful…
Poetic puerility.
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