scones

Old scones…

You have the best tea rooms in the world, you bake delicious scones to serve with your cream tea… but just occasionally you must have a few left over at the end of the day… so what do you do with them? Throw them away? No, obviously not! you let them dry out and then […]

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The great debate

When I was teaching as part of the English syllabus, students had to debate and discuss.  I tried to choose topics which they would find interesting and engaging and have some opinion on. I tried all the usual topics, capital punishment, abortion, student grants, religion… I tried local issues, what should happen to the Tropicana, should Weston have a skate-park, should they build the Severn barrage… I tried […]

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