Languishing without Languages

Languishing without Languages

What languages are we teaching at schools? And what is the point of learning languages? Such are questions that many people ask nowadays. However, what has any of that to do with an article on school sport? We do well to ask that as well. We might easily argue that...
Do not sweat the small stuff

Do not sweat the small stuff

Mosquitoes are a pain. There is the old saying that there is nothing worse than hearing a mosquito when you are lying in bed in the dark – except for then not hearing it! When it goes quiet, then we start to flap around, hitting ourselves in a vain attempt to squash...
Epitaph of a match

Epitaph of a match

What is written on people’s gravestones can be interesting and amusing. Hank Williams had “I’ll never get out of this world alive” written on his – there can be no argument about that (if we consider it purely in physical terms, we might note though). Spike Milligan,...
Spoilsport

Spoilsport

We may well have come across at some stage the ‘Spoiler Alert’ warning. Be it in a review of a book, play or film, we are advised that if we do not want to know what happens until we have read or watched it right through ourselves, then we should stop reading the...
Cysts in systems

Cysts in systems

Some people like only one make of a car. They like the car they started to drive in and continue with it or other models by the same company for many years. However, very few people stick to it always and they find it very easy to drive another car; there may be a few...