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Midweek musings #6 (opens the original)
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Greetings!This is going to be really short. I mean really short. I have to be out of here in an hour to see a concert given by Boris Giltberg, a classical pianist. I think I am looking forward to it. I’m not sure because I’m more of a jazz person myself, even though I love classical music. Anyway, that is not the big mistake referred to in the subtitle of this article. No, the big mistake was responding to a notice in a local magazine asking if anyone is interested in a writing project. I assume
A quick update (opens the original)
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Greetings!I’ve been catching up with admin, and book reviewing deadlines. I have about three half-formed articles swilling around in my head. Hopefully, something readable will emerge soon.In the meantime, here is a piece I wrote some time ago. The essence of it is actually true, when I was a teacher in a pretty tough school in the poor side of town.Enjoy!Teachers gotta be toughI turned my collar up against the wind. A useless gesture, because the wind contemptuously insinuated itself under my s
Revisited: My Queen and I (opens the original)
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A Sure Sign of Ageing (opens the original)
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The Big Sweep (opens the original)
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The following story was a light-hearted attempt to write hardboiled fiction for heads of education technology in schools. To some extent it seems a little dated now, because many schools invest in laptops and tablets rather than suites of computers. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy reading it.<div class="image2-in
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