Category: General

Teachers

I ask in all seriousness: what attributes would you expect of the ideal teacher?  I have today undertaken some training, and this was one of the questions we were asked.  The answers – adaptability, fairness, flexibility, empathy, sense of humour, were all as you might expect.  Where my fellow educators and I parted company was over my suggestion that “passion for the subject” should be included.  Likewise, they dismissed knowledge – what you needed to teach at primary level, they said, was nothing that you could not mug up the night before. Continue reading “Teachers”

The Language Lie

The Government have just moved forward with an old New Labour proposal to force upon those migrating for settlement to the UK, an examination of their competence in the English language. The Government have just moved forward with an old New Labour proposal to force upon those migrating for settlement to the UK, an examination of their competence in the English language.  I’ve no doubt that unlike the previous Government, a Government which has on her hands the blood of both the Islamic and Orthodox Christian world—this Government have only the best of intentions in putting this examination forward.  The apparent intention of this legislation is the noble goal of creating economic and social equality throughout society, by having no member of society deprived of the English tongue.  The methods employed however are dark and devious, as this New Labour legislation seeks to compound the racialism inherent in EU membership.

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A Great Day For Freedom

By the way, hello all.  Some of you know me, some may not.  Nice to be in a place where I can be myself–along with my own humble one author site of course.

It was a watershed election in the history of post-War Europe, an election whose reverberations will be felt right round the world—an election making Britain’s own historic election of 2010 long downright prosaic.  In The Netherlands the first country to break away from the bonds of feudal Europe and embrace free speech and tolerance—a true Party of Freedom have won 24 Parliamentary seats—thus making them the biggest centre-right party in The Netherlands, trouncing the ousted erstwhile Government Christian Democrats. Continue reading “A Great Day For Freedom”

A Thank You to Bearsy

Just a line to thank Bearsy for the munificent gesture of providing a link to the new Out Doors blog.

It was pretty obvious that MyT did not want gardeners, no group on offer, no picture facility to speak of and not even the politesse of an answer!  So we took ourselves off elsewhere!  One is at a bit of a pass to know who exactly MyT does want these days!

But a big thank you to Bearsy for putting out for us!

I’m lovin’ it (2)

Cool or what?

Some of you may remember my good fortune at being lucky enough to win two tickets to FIFA 2010 courtesy of McDonald’s, I wrote about it here.

Here’s one of them, arrived by courier this morning, I actually won two tickets, row 12  seat 1 and 2.

It’s been a heck of a performance getting them, McDonald’s sent two events managers down here from Jhb two Sundays ago, I arrived with my documentation and out of over 150 winning applicants from the Eastern Cape my name had somehow or other fallen off the database. The chap in charge was brilliant gave me his details and assured me that although the free ticket event was over that he would look after me, what can I say, it took a few phone calls but as you can imagine I was ecstatic when my tickets finally arrived this morning.

Have a look at the ‘category’

Category 1,  face value US$160, that’s a fortune down here (as I’m sure it is anywhere), can’t wait, we’re going to have a jol!

Others may remember my even earlier post (during January) where I applied for tickets for a number of different games, this match was one of them, don’t worry, don’t have a sleepless night I was able to sell my tickets would you believe to a Portuguese mate of mine who had missed the boat (at face value of course :))

I recall being criticized by our (ex)resident Orleans gardener about junk food and the pros and cons thereof, as my title says, who cares I’M LOVIN’ IT 😉