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.”
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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”
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
Ada
There was a girl, Who’s name was Ada Babbage. When she did a twirl, A very nice twirl, She looked like a frozen Cabbage.
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”
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”
Chapter n + 1
More talking “So there must be lots of these Spyders by now,” said Steve. “I heard that Spyders breed like rabbits!” “That can’t possibly be true,” said Greg. “Rabbits are mammals so therefore the young are carried internally by the mother until birth. They then have to be weaned and fed milk from the mammaryContinue reading “Chapter n + 1”
Chapter 19
A Bridge to Far. Climbing slowly upwards from the Vale of Glam Organ (where lived a girl of some renown) the party followed the old Roaming Road toward the bridge over troubled waters. Offal’s ravine was at its narrowest at this point due to him having a bit of a hangover on the day heContinue reading “Chapter 19”
Chapter 17
Bored in Both and Fanovabba. The departure from Both was now delayed. Peter lay in a small bed in one of the backrooms in the house of His Senses. He idled in a lovely bed, flitting in and out of consciousness. He dreamt that Hanny was in attendance. He dreamt that the King of theContinue reading “Chapter 17”
Fairy Hanny 