The penknife is mightier than the sword
The sword is mightier than the penknife. Certainly the case when Spanish sailors are boarding your ship and a Spaniard, making quite an impression with a fighting sword, is wielding it to cut and...
Monthly Archive: December 2021
A trip down memory lane
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! from the song ‘Another brick in the wall’ by Pink Floyd (1979) David, in his first year of teaching, flicked the light switch on the overhead projector and...
little owl
Graham R. Cooper Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry; On the bat’s back I do fly, After summer, merrily.* They’re...
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