Disaster for Scotland

‘Well since we’ve got this rain delay at the Auchinleck and District Ladies’ Bowling League relegation play-off semi-finals, we’ll just nip over to our Radio Jockland commentator, Jock Scunner, to see if anything is happening at that game in South Africa. Aye weel, Jock?’

‘Aye weel, Weir! You join us with 30 seconds to go in extra time, after which it will be penalties when we will, hopefully, get the usual happy ending. We’ve got a lengthy injury delay at the moment, with Crouch receiving treatment for altitude sickness. Given that Soccer City Stadium is over 5,700 feet above sea level, it was always going to be a mistake to play the skinnymalink in the first place, in my opinion – there can’t be much oxygen up there even for for his big neb.

Still, it gives me some time to describe the scene. Away to my right I can see the massed ranks of the magnificent Brazilian fans. Happy, flag-waving, samba-loving extroverts dancing the time away in true carnival style as they await the victory which any true football fan would wish them. Continue reading “Disaster for Scotland”

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”

I lost my moisturiser.

On my way back from Bucharest to Moscow I had to transit through Munich. Since it was a short trip, I was travelling with hand-carried luggage only. In my washing kit I had a bottle of moisturiser. (After 25 years of running around in the open, the first seven in a semi-permanent haze of diesel smoke, if I don’t moisturise regularly I turn into a remarkably good stand-in for the amazing Lizard Man.)

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