Category Archives: musings

Following from afar

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

This week the annual IATEFL UK conference is being held in Glasgow. I’m guessing I probably didn’t need to tell a lot of the visitors to this blog. For the first time I’m following from afar.  It isn’t the first … Continue reading →

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A short footnote

Posted on March 11, 2012 by

I’m in Bilbao this weekend. And I’m loving it. Here’s an image I found on flickr before I travelled up. It was so good to find the exact spot where it was taken and compare the image with my reality. … Continue reading →

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A journey in languages

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

I’m feeling a bit shy … maybe even a bit sheepish … as I come back to blogging after such a long time away, and a bit unsure about where to start. This is a post that’s been playing in … Continue reading →

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Weather report

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

I started off in July thinking I’d be writing and blogging the whole summer through, but it just didn’t work out that way.  I should have signed off on July 1 and gone with the flow of switching from teacher … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Welsh revisited

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

My blog was one year old yesterday and in the spirit of anniversaries I went back and re-read my first post  only to find that I’ve come round in a full circle.  No surprise really, it’s that time of year. … Continue reading →

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Head in the word clouds

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

I’ve been following Dave Dodgson’s word cloud blog challenge recently.  Dave had been giving a webinar on using word clouds at the Virtual Round Table online conference and at the end of his session he shared a word cloud of … Continue reading →

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Flashes of inspiration

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

This blog post started writing itself in my head last Friday. It’s a little different from my usual posts. It isn’t a close up on a classroom activity or a teaching technique, it’s more like a “moment in time” photo, … Continue reading →

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2010 – looking back

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

I’ve never really been one for new year resolutions.  When I did use to make them , usually out of a feeling that I should rather than that I wanted to, they were always more or less the same: eat … Continue reading →

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Last class

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

I had my last face to face class with my blogging group today. It was a great class and we covered a huge range of topics from the native people and languages of the Canary islands to the location of … Continue reading →

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Grey days

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

Yesterday was a very untypically grey day in Cádiz.  With the drizzle thick in the air and the grey-green sea lost in the low clouds. When my students came back from their break in the morning class they seemed a … Continue reading →

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