The Viper VIP

The Viper VIP

“Do you know who I am?” How often have we heard that? Clearly the speaker thinks everyone should and must know who he is but the fact that he has to ask indicates what has not occurred to him, that not everyone does (or needs to) know him. As Margaret Thatcher, the...
Who Cares?

Who Cares?

Most readers of this article will know who Paul McCartney is – he may be over eighty years old now but he obviously principally gained enormous fame as the bass guitarist, vocalist and fellow song-writer for the global phenomenon that was The Beatles, ultimately...
The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier

Space has always fascinated us, all the more so since we have had the benefits of television. Many readers may remember watching the first man to land on the moon on the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 with the understatement “That’s one small step for man, one...
Attitude is a Beatitude

Attitude is a Beatitude

We may all remember what was drilled into us as a child coming to grips with spelling in English where annoyingly words spelt the same are pronounced differently and where words pronounced the same are spelt differently – let us not go there again, thank you very...
Three A Stars

Three A Stars

That is all! That is all we want as parents – three A*s please. We are paying big money and when we pay big money for something we expect to get the best. It cannot be too much to ask – we are paying lots of money to pay you, the teacher, to ensure that our child gets...