by admin | Jun 21, 2026 | Education Articles
In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded a song that soon became an anthem for the anti-war movement in America as well as a commercial hit – ‘Give Peace a Chance’. It begins with, and frequently repeats, the line “Everybody’s talking about” and goes on to speak of...
by admin | Jun 14, 2026 | Education Articles
There is an old joke: “As we get older, three things happen. First, our memory goes. Second, … I can’t remember the other two.” Have we ever felt like that? Have we forgotten things, important things at that? Children are very good at forgetting things! Perhaps it...
by admin | Jun 14, 2026 | Sports Articles
A memorable child’s story (certainly to one Scots granny we can find on YouTube) is ‘Wonky Donkey’ by Craig Smith which starts with the listener hearing that “I was walking down the road and I saw a donkey”. He goes on to describe certain things about the donkey, one...
by admin | Jun 7, 2026 | Education Articles
Various sources claim that people typically use about five thousand different words in their speech and about twice that many in their writing. That means, then, that there is a lot of repetition, does it not? Words, words, words! No, but words are important,...
by admin | Jun 7, 2026 | Sports Articles
Picture the scene: a bus (no, not a commuter bus, nor one of our crab-like sideways-moving ramshackle buses but a real bus, a reliable bus) is filled with children and a small number of adults as they set out on a long and potentially dangerous rough journey. The...
