Britain’s literacy rates…correction: Illiteracy rates

The BBC claims that the average reader in Britain has read only six of the following 100 books. I am horrified if this is at all accurate. I am ashamed to say I have not read 56 of them, and most of those I have read were in the first 25 years of my life probably… Continue reading “Britain’s literacy rates…correction: Illiteracy rates”

Just had to share these

My Granddaughter’s ballet class – she’s four and as scatter-brained as any four-year old. Typical little girl – loves pink. When I bought her a computer for her birthday, the main technical specification was that it had to be pink. (Fortunately, Sony Vaios come in pink.)

She does love her ballet class, though – I think the concentration shows 🙂 Though I’m not quite sure why she is, apparently, being tortured.

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