Tuesday 17 April 2012

Hamlet reincarnate...

Anyone else seen the competition just launched by Frank MUrlin? I myself am intrigued and will certainy have a go. He's suggesting that writers take Hamlet's famous speech, "To be or not to be..." and instead of words like "From whose born, no traveller returns" re-write the soliloquy from the point of reincarnation. Any other takers?




Monday 2 April 2012

School Trips

When I was young we were told travel broadens the mind. Today, just before the Easter holiday, we find that travel broadens the profit margin for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Last year, 40,000 children, with parents, played truant and went on holiday during term times. Might free schools(!) allow this liberty as being educationally, as well as economically, damn good (INa)SENSE?