Noah CooperAn Interesting Story (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I first started writing this blog, I posted a number of reviews of books that we were reading to our son. I had envisaged this being a regular thing, perhaps every couple of weeks or so. I soon...
The world’s greatest secret agent (Wikipedia) We had a boys’ night in last week when it was just me and Mr. T. As he was on his way to pre-school earlier in the day, I asked him what he wanted to do, and he loudly declared...
One from the family album (Samantha Meets Mocha by AMagill – CC-BY-2.0) Shakespeare got it wrong. He might have been a great wordsmith and playwright who could look into people’s souls and see what made them tick. But when it came to...
(Wikipedia) A while ago I was talking to a good friend of mine who used to be an English teacher, but who has now moved on to other things. We were talking about how frustrating it can be teaching young children English and, despite only ever...
AHA! (Benabomb on Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0) For a long time Mr. T has been saying ‘dah‘ for ‘yes’ or ‘sim‘, as I might have mentioned before. And then last week it changed. I had half expected him to start saying...