Bits and pieces

Muddling through

Every Tuesday during term time    I volunteer to teach English to people whose first language is something else. I’m part of a team of six, although we sometimes have other helpers as well; there is one person who is, I suppose our co-ordinator  . She is not a teacher, but a lovely, warm person, […]

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A jolly little fellow

I don’t know what this little canal boat was used for… maybe it was just to whiz up and down the canals ferrying people back and forth rather than big cargoes of iron ore, cola or whatever else canal boats carried. Here it is now, seemingly abandoned in still water, weeds growing all around it, […]

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