I marked some books earlier. A child had invented a word. I had no idea what it meant. Thoughts? The word was “filimblerckord”.
Wednesday is quickly becoming a difficult day to manage. The nature of it – the staff meeting at the end of school, along with 5 different lessons – means that I generally have 3 or 4 sets of books to mark at the end of it. Today, I managed to get one set done during […]
For once I’m making an entry in the linkage section where I’m not writing about the one going out, but coming in. A few entries ago [Is There A Barb Dwyer Here? I’m After Barb Dwyer!], I wrote about Russell Ash‘s book Potty, Fartwell & Knob – Extraordinary But True Names Of British People. Then […]
Names are an interesting thing. You have no choice in them whatsoever and, in the majority of cases, you have to put up with them for your whole life. Recently, in a fit of reading that is rare at the best of times, I completed a book called “Potty, Fartwell & Knob – Extraordinary But […]
“The problem with theft is that the difference between getting away with it and getting caught is universally huge. If you get away with it, you feel so onmipotent, so clearly superior to everyone else milling around being so good that it all seems worth it. If you get caught, you shrivel up and die […]