Tag: People

  • Edwina was right!

    You may remember,some twenty years ago, that Edwina Curry got the sack for telling pensioners to wrap up warm, put on another cardigan and wear a hat. Well, of course she was right and it was just an excuse t ridicule her and get rid of her for telling us not to eat eggs –…

  • Patrick Ness Wins Costa Children's Book Prize – Why?

    Patrick Ness, who wins the Children’s Book Award for The Ask and the Answer (Book Two of the Chaos Walking trilogy) which the judges acclaimed as “a major achievement in the making” I quite agree with the judge that the Chaos walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness is a major achievement in the making, I can’t…

  • The Past is A Foreign Country

    I took my son to Canterbury this week, to have a look at the University. I stopped before the site of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket and was surprised to find out that my son knew nothing at all about Becket. He then walked past the tomb of the Black Prince, blissfully unaware of…