Noah CooperFirst flag of the Brazilian Republic (Wikipedia) In my last post about Brazil for the World Cup for Kids series I asked people what they thought Brazil was famous for, hoping to find something different to write about. Well, Amanda Van Mulligan...
England play their first game in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil tomorrow against Italy. For the first time in a long time I am actually hopeful about the England team and looking forwards to seeing them play in a major tournament. In the past I have...
Face palm? (Wikipedia) This is it. Today’s the day. It’s time for the jaguar to drink water. The kick off for the 2014 World Cup is upon us. By the end of the day we’ll know if Brazil have managed to win the first game and maybe...
Fifa Go Home by MULL – CC.BY.40 A week to go until the big day when Brazil kicks off the World Cup. There are another 4 days until the city I live in hosts its first game, and they are going to need every last-minute of it because they are...
How England’s World Cup dreams always end up. (@Doug88888) In case you hadn’t heard, the World Cup is about to start here in Brazil. As an Englishman living here I am just thankful that England managed to qualify because I don’t...
Mummy and daddy ducks (katdaned) What do you do with a toddler on an afternoon when you have got nothing planned, but your pride and joy is going stir crazy in the house? The weather probably isn’t good enough to slap on shorts and T-shirts...
Jimi Hendrix by Luiz Fernando Reis CC BY 2.0 The great Jimi Hendrix is widely quoted as saying that ‘music is my religion’ and it could quite easily apply to our family as well. Despite not being able to play an instrument or hold a note, I have...
It is with great pleasure that I am the host of this month’s Multicultural Kids Blogs Carnival. The theme this month is ‘Where do you come from?’ which can be a tricky question for lots of people to answer in this modern world...
I ‘drove’ one of these when I was a kid Last week I went to João Pessoa in the north-east of Brazil for the Braz Tesol conference. It is a conference that draws together English language teachers from all over Brazil, as well as...
Music is very important in our family. I can’t play an instrument to save my life, and my singing voice is even worse, but I have always been around music, including being a roadie for my friends’ band, The Sherbet, when I was a teenager. I...