The Value of Community
The Value of Community and having Good Neighbours Feeling Grateful The value of community: Today has been one of those days that I have felt really grateful for. The reason for this isn’t becasue a new (well 23 year old) Landrover, purchased from the extremely efficient, helpful team at Landrover Centre Huddersfield – whose cars are […]
Student teacher relationship; Going the Extra Mile for your Students
Positive Student Teacher Relationships So the end of term is upon all my teacher friends. It’s a bit weird to not be there for the end of term leavers’ assembly and it’s odd to think that now both girls have left school there really is very little reason to return to Patana. It has been a […]
City Smoke or Sleepy Village?
Living at Home or Living Abroad Where would you choose to live – Bangkok or Broughton? Beautiful Broughton. Living in Broughton has always been one home. It’s the last week of term at my old school, Bangkok Patana. Although it is overseas I feel like I’m living at home in Thailand, yet to my family in the […]
The UK NHS Harmful and Substandard or Healing and Successful?
The NHS in the UK My dad’s had a bit of time of it this last year with his health, so we’ve been vey grateful to have the NHS here in the UK to draw upon. I’m a huge advocate for nursing staff particulary and feel they are incredibly underpaid and undervalued by our government. […]
Kids; Computers, Crayons and Connections
Ways to Entertain Children in Restaurants I’ve just discovered Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfections, which I’m listening to as an audio book whilst I swim. It makes a very welcome change to Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commandatore which I’ve recently finished. It wasn’t that Killing Commandatore wasn’t interesting to listen to, but at 700 plus pages, I think I could […]
Moving by Jenny Eclair – Great Summer Read
Book Review of Moving by Jenny Eclair Moving by Jenny Eclair is an unexpected treat read. I probably chose this book because as a listener to the Older and Wider podcast, more than anything else, I was curious about the author, Jenny Eclair. I was doubtful whether a stand-up-comedian could really write good fiction and wondered whether […]