Laura | February 28, 2006
Thought I would do an update on my progress. It is a month since I started this and some things have been started, some haven’t, some are about to start as the new month is about to start. So, here is a rundown.
31. Make a photo journal for both photos I take and [...]
Laura | February 27, 2006
Well, the Winter Olympics in Turin are over [sport.bbc.co.uk]. GB only got one medal – a silver in the Women’s Skeleton for Shelley Rudman. It was a fairly uneventful Olympic Games. There weren’t many (if any?) scandals and they just seemed to happen. The low point, for GB I suppose, is [...]
Laura | February 21, 2006
This year is the bicentennial year of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birth [guardian.co.uk]. Her Sonnets from the Portugese are some of the best poems I have ever read. They are just beautiful. Everyone should read them at some point in their life. It is just a shame that she is quite often [...]
Laura | February 21, 2006
The result on the smoking ban [news.bbc.co.uk] is something I have been meaning to update on for ages now. I am extremely pleased about the blanket ban on smoking in pubs in England. It means that I can go into a pub and not come out of it smelling like an ashtray. [...]
Laura | February 21, 2006
Apparently, according to Ofsted, many of those who are training on the job to be teachers are not being taught enough [news.bbc.co.uk]. Apparently, the Graduate Teaching Programme, particularly in Secondary Schools, isn’t working as well as it should be and that one in five teachers undertaking this scheme are teaching unsatisfactory lessons, by Ofsted’s [...]
Laura | February 17, 2006
Yesterday while I was watching Breakfast News, they had a report on how the Shetland Knitwear industry is dying out due to lack of knitters. I tried to find the article to link to it but there doesn’t seem to be one Anyway, since that report, BBC News has had an [...]
Laura | February 14, 2006
Well, today is the dreaded V Day. The day that Hallmark, Clinton Cards and the flower companies all rub their hands with glee. As commercial as the whole day is, I like Valentine’s Day. I like the corniness and I think we do it quite well. We don’t do corny but [...]
Laura | February 11, 2006
I am distraught. I can’t believe Ask Jeeves [uk.ask.com] is axing Jeeves [news.bbc.co.uk]. It will be a sorry day when Jeeves goes. Many a day I have spent asking Jeeves totally inappropriate questions …
RIP Jeeves.
Laura | February 10, 2006
A team of archaeologists from the University of Memphis have found an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings [news.bbc.co.uk]. This is the first since Tutenkhamun was found in 1922. Inside the tomb there were 5 undisturbed mummies and a wooden sarcophagi. This is really interesting. I am looking forward [...]
Laura | February 9, 2006
This book is one of my favourite books ever. I loved it. The Time Traveler’s Wife [amazon.co.uk] is the love story of Henry and Clare who first meet when Henry is 28 and Clare is 6. They marry when Clare is 22 and Henry is 30. He is a time traveller [...]