Doing it suddenly would be pretty much impossible. If the DfE announced this week that the holidays were going to be moved forward by two weeks (so that Easter was at the end rather than at the begin… (View Post)

The schools may be shut to pupils going in, but teachers are still working from home (and speaking from personal experience it is harder to teach from home than it is in school, or at least it is if … (View Post)

Even better we could demonstrate that a balloon made of tinfoil will let helium out, showing that there must be holes in it... (View Post)

The trouble with that definition of noon is that the time between them is not usually exactly 24 hours (although it averages out at that over a year). Hence the "mean" in GMT. A sundial can… (View Post)

FPT Group 4. I was offered a range of dates and picked a Saturday so I would not need time off work, so I would probably count as having been offered one by the 30th of April. (View Post)