A Big Night Out at a Fashion Parade The college provides education in an interesting and diverse collection of subjects. Subjects include, but are not limited to art, music, textiles and footwear, modelling, acting, business, languages and courses dealing with cars and machinery. If I hadn’t accidently met a couple of non English major students […]
The Weekend that Isn’t Next Wednesday is a public holiday. Apparently it was introduced or reintroduced, can’t remember which, a couple of years ago to ensure people retained connection with their culture. The skeptical would say that it also facilitates that other cultural institution, commerce. Not only is Wednesday a day off work, but also […]
A Dog called Baby and Response to a Request Yesterday one of my ex-students called offering to take me out. I had a day of work lined up, but there’s always tomorrow so off I went. We headed across the road and through an entrance which previously I had considered private. When will I ever […]
A Tail or Two I kept running into dogs when I was out. I visited one of my regular fruit stalls; more like a home away from home for several family members. I didn’t find bananas, but I did find two pups. They were very, very busy. They soon had two hairy visitors. The meeting […]
About 10 days ago one of my students asked me to write a speech for inclusion in the forthcoming new newsletter. After deciphering exactly what it was all about I dutifully complied. About a week later another one asked me to check the English in some material, copied from the internet, which they wanted […]