Encore de drivel

God, doesn't everything happen at once!
After going on Alex Hall's radio show last wednesday [Top lass!]. I was invited to go back on this Saturday to review the newspapers.
Typical! Stokesley show day/Members tent/Boro v Mackems and to rub it in I had to turn down the opportunity of having a stall in the Craft tent.
My old boss used to say that he was suffering from CRAFT!
[Can't remember an f..........in' thing!] The way I'm going I'll end up with CRAFT!

C'est la vie.

Stokesley Show

Already Stokesley Show week, the rides are moving in as I write this drivel.
I was trying to explain what Stokesley Show means to local people the other day and to be honest it means that many different things to different people.
For me it has always meant one thing, GRAFT!
Yet even though I am still involved, [I'll see you in the Members tent!] It means that I will see so many people that I probably haven't seen since last Stokesley show.
The only thing is nowadays, when people say, 'you're looking well', doesn't that mean, God you've put some weight on and where did your hair go?!!!

State of the art Technology

If you have visited my website you have probably seen the 'State of the Art Technology' video on the home page.

This is created using ustream.tv This is a tool that needs to be explored and I am the man to do it!!

I will be working with our friends in France to create some online lessons and somehow, I will!! create Café Pierre TV.

Things are hotting up for the start of the Academic year and I will be attending a graduation in November, MINE!!!! I somehow scraped through my M/A in Education. God knows how, in between Gurkhas, pickles, dogs, kids etc.

It's spitting!!!!!!

It's spitting!

Go to the end of the clip and follow the Pink Dinner Ladies!

The weather

Thanks to André, I've been thinking about the weather a lot lately!

We take our language so much for granted that we sometimes need to think about the richness of it.

For example, when talking about the wind and the cold, what do we say?

It's gusty/there's a nip in the air/ it's chilly.

But how about;

'It's a cold and lazy wind that cuts through you'.

or

'When the wind's in the east it's no good to man nor beast'.

or perhaps a more Yorkshire saying;

I'm nithered!

We English have dozens of ways of takling about the rain.

'It's spitting!, probably the most famous recently thanks to Peter Kay

You know the kind of rain that goes right through you!

Brilliant!