so thomas hardy was a feature.nd, um...that was of great use in later life. but particularly, we had a dramatic group that would come to the school called the earl grey players. and they would put on plays that were in the curriculum. you were doing a bit of acting as well, then? oh, i was doing some acting, because it was the age of skits. people did a lot of skits. so what i eventually did with home economics was i put on a home economics opera. what?! how does that play out...? well, it played out like this. the well—meaning, but rather humourless, um... home economics teacher made the mistake of letting us vote on a special project. hmm. this is the downside of democracy. so we could vote on it. and she wanted us to vote on making stuffed animals for sick children in hospitals. a very worthy project, but i felt, why not just buy them? i knew about those curved seams. i wanted to have nothing to do with them. er...we'd already done smocking, that was enough of that. so i subverted part of the class and got them

so thomas hardy was a feature. laughter. year, and, um...that was of great use in later life. but, particularly, we had a dramatic group would come to the school, called the earl grey players. and they would put on plays that were in the curriculum. you were doing a bit of acting as well, then? oh, i was doing some acting, because it was the age of skits. people did a lot of skits. so what i eventually did with home economics was i put on a home economics opera. what?! how does that play out...? well, it played out like this. the well—meaning, but rather humourless, um... home economics teacher made the mistake of letting us vote on a special project. hmm. this is the downside of democracy. so we could vote on it. and she wanted us to vote on making stuffed animals for sick children in hospitals. a very worthy project, but i felt, why not just buy them? i knew about those curved seams. i wanted to have nothing to do with them. er...we�*d already done smocking, that was enough of that. so i subverted part of the class and got

that little book spoke to me with the directness thomas dickinson thomas hardy could not match steinbeck's advocate was him cursive nonetheless it was heartfelt and genuine and on and balance it served as a force for good and still can. as a transplant from another country who sought to find home in various places across america for 35 years, i am drawn to steinbeck as a regionalists who understand the power of attachment to place his value of having the ugly truth of how the most recently read californians sometimes develop their own sense of belonging by dehumanizing even newer arrivals a process of regionalism through reaction that remains alive and well across the west in america. i appreciate steinbeck is a chronicle of place his celebrated the decency and humanity of those on the fringes of society the countercultural type c workers, the developmentally challenge i relish the irony has malcolm described canterbury road. helped create tourist attraction from the rest of shells of tanning factories. i suggest what be known as steinbeck that from sand was in the north down through monte

easter christmas and the summer holiday, is there holiday, we all know is there from the days of thomas hardybsolutely irrelevant. it's an absurd thing to do. and this is well, the other story we're going to come on why don't going to come on to, why don't we education news. we do it now? education news. danus we do it now? education news. darius carefully darius let's carefully tiptoe around . but the around this story. but the chinese children , the telegraph chinese children, the telegraph reports that the chinese children are vastly outperforming their white british peers . british peers. >> i've already i've always said that bat chicken feet and live octopus are brain food. so there might be something in that. but they're outperforming their white british peers so vicariously also their black, asian and all their other peers, they're doing the top like poor white kids are doing about the worst in the british schools at the moment . the moment. >> but is interesting. i >> but it is interesting. i mean, this kind mean, there's always this kind of, a culture of of, oh, we have a culture of

so thomas hardy was a feature. laughter.e acting, because it was the age of skits. people did a lot of skits. so what i eventually did with home economics was i put on a home economics opera. what?! how does that play out...? well, it played out like this. the well—meaning, but rather humourless, um... home economics teacher made the mistake of letting us vote on a special project. this is the downside of democracy. so we could vote on it. and she wanted us to vote on making stuffed animals for sick children in hospitals. a very worthy project, but i felt, why not just buy them? i knew about those curved seams. i wanted to have nothing to do with them. er...we'd already done smocking, that was enough of that. so i subverted part of the class and got them to vote on the home economics opera. she was a little bit dismayed by that, but because it was a vote, she said, yes, we could do it, as long as it was on a home economics subject. so it was. it was about fabrics. orlon, nylon and dacron were their names. who was writing the

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