by admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Education Articles
It is interesting (or perhaps just a coincidence) that in fairy tales and nursery rhymes there often appear to be three animals. We have three blind mice, not knowing what they are doing (heading in different directions); we have the three bears with Goldilocks, all...
by admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Sports Articles
It is one of professional sport’s most ridiculous requirements that managers and even players are put through post-match interviews and pre-match press conferences where the questions tend to be inane, provocative, wearisome, irrelevant, unnecessary and ignoble. They...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Education Articles
It is interesting to compare the classic film Dead Poets Society to the film we considered in a previous article, Grease. Both were set in schools in America, following teenagers as they searched for their identity; one was set in 1958 and the other in 1959. Both...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Standard People
The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John, was made in 1978 but was set in Chicago in 1959, and set out to portray teenagers struggling to come to terms with their identity amid the pressures of...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Sports Articles
“Many a true word is said in jest”, as the saying goes. During a fun game of ‘Trivial Pursuits’ with various pupils seated on the ground around the board, plus the housemaster’s dog sleeping at the housemaster’s head (as he reclined on the floor), the teacher jokingly...
