Monthly Archives: October 2006

I hope you had as good a half-term break as I had. Quite a few people have posted on here now, and a look at the site statistics suggests that quite a few people have been looking here without posting. … Continue reading →

I’m at Whitby world music festival with Mr L-S this weekend, and going to Devon with my family tomorrow so will only be online by mobile phone (ie not much). I’ll be delighted if you just get on without me. … Continue reading →

shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to.” I’ve often wondered why, in that lyric from The Smiths‘ song ‘Ask’, Morrissey chose to use the conjunction ‘and’ rather than ‘but’. What do you think? … Continue reading →

I did promise you an online presence for advice, resources and discussion relating to your GCSE English courses, and here it is. Obviously there’s not a lot here yet, other than this post, but together I hope we can make … Continue reading →

Some of you will recognise the subject line of this post as a discourse marker, conventionally used to signal the opening of an oral narrative. So when you read it, were you expecting an oral narrative to follow? Presumably not. … Continue reading →