Daily Archives: April 26, 2011

49 and counting

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Tonight I start my 50th year. When I was a kid, 40 was one thing, but people in their 50s, well, that was old… and now there’s a 5 hovering over my 10’s column: still greyed out, but looming into … Continue reading →

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Mr. Osborne starts to bite

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Last week a colleague at work introduced me to a site called Teachers TV, and specifically to a video of someone called Phil Beadle teaching a class of inner city yoof a poem by Grace Nichols called Island Man.It was … Continue reading →

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