Well we’ve still got three weeks before school finishes for the summer. However the attitude of many of our students seems to be Exams are over so I’m not coming to school anymore. This is made worse by the fact that next week is Eid and so school is closed for the week; then weContinue reading “4. End of term looming.”
Category Archives: Creative writing
3 Flying like lead balloons.
Of course we had to do our test flights. I wanted to go out to the outside balcony overlooking the sports field – actually it is an astro-turf football pitch – but they all complained that it was too hot outside. Back home in England I would be facing the opposite problem with students demandingContinue reading “3 Flying like lead balloons.”
2. The last few days
It’s the end of year and so to everyone’s deep joy it is exam time. Some of the students have been really good to me by inventing pointless answers to some of the questions and basically just writing random numbers for answers. One of the Year 7 boys decided that every question requiring an answerContinue reading “2. The last few days”
Holiday poem – August 2005.
There was a young girl called Gaynor Finnegan, She went walking in Arguineguin, Paul came out and pulled her in again, Same old timeshare spin again, begin again?
Fishing
Oh the fish came out the sea, And turned in to a mammal, So he had a cup of tea, And rode off on a camel. He sauntered on the soft sand dunes, And it was all so nice, So he ate a lovely bowl of prunes, And chocolate covered rice. He sat down onContinue reading “Fishing”
Swifty’s diet tips.
Scratchy Leathers. Things we can wear at home; “I’ll tell you what to wear!” She said: My dread. Déjà vu in French – Morocco. Did you know we travelled on the Marrakech Express? Slowly – lentement Pierre; Cramped corridor reality. “Don’t go to the cludgy on here!” Slowly – lentement. Driving south – just aContinue reading
N 0ther chapter
Big Bad Regan As Orcs go, Regan was a bad one. I know this implies that some Orcs are therefore good, which is not really the case. Rather than say an Orc is good it is best to say some of them are less bad than the others. This is Politically Correct Adventure Doublespeak. InContinue reading “N 0ther chapter”
Treat yourself!
Strange Things From Uranus – STFU!
The Adventures of Fairy Hanny
If you’re enjoying these clips in my blog why not buy the books? First Adventure is “Strange Things from Uranus” I just checked and I have well over one thousand followers for my blogs, and over one thousand ‘friends’ on LinkedIn. I am sure that means there is a good market out there just dyingContinue reading “The Adventures of Fairy Hanny”
Fairy Hanny 