I used to live near Alton, Hants. A friend who was a teacher used to organise foreign exchanges for pupils. She said she had to deal with a large number of foreign pupils who were excited at the pros… (View Post)

A large part of education is self-education. (View Post)

On the topic of performers, whoever said last night that Ernie Wise was less talented than Eric is quite wrong; they were equally talented. You only have to look at Ernie's tap dancing in the &q… (View Post)

My grandfather worked as a jeweller/pawnbroker. In those days pawnbrokers had a three golden balls sign outside the shop. One day a lady came into the shop and told him: "Did you know one of you… (View Post)

Watching vox pops on TV last night on how the red wall voted Tory I was struck by two thoughts: 1) How really angry many of the white working class were at being labelled thick racists because they v… (View Post)