Vacation Reading
Read on vacation: Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities — poor Pater, there were so many passages that I had to read out loud so that he could appreciate the hilariously dry wit along with…
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Building Blocks and Travel
“Compare and contrast” essays are central to my arsenal of 1st-year assignments, a more developed version of the old “One of these things is not like the others” game regularly featured on Sesame Street. Marking…
View PostNestling back in, feeling lucky
I’m feeling quite pleased with myself for bringing the good weather back home with me — the whole time we were away, the temperature here rarely got into the low 20s, but this week it’s…
View PostHome again, Home again, jiggety-jig . . .
Pater humoured me this morning and we were out of the hotel by 6:15, at King’s Cross and on the Piccadilly Line by 6:30, and at Heathrow by 7:30 where there were no long lines…
View PostA Tale of Two Cities — well, mostly Paris!
I wrote this post yesterday morning, went to Publish, and realized the Wi-fi connection had been cut off partway through so I’d lost most of my work. Re-writing it with slightly less enthusiasm now that…
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