Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I do not normally find myself cheering Sheffield on, and especially not after all the bad feeling at the end of the last football season, but tonight they are in the final of University Challenge against Christ Church College, Oxford

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Although I dislike meetings and can get easily bored by them, I really feel guilty when I miss ones I should be at, and I feel especially guilty if I miss a meeting I am supposed to be chairing.
Tonight, after having previously written up agendas, e-mailed some and physically gone all round Broadfield delivering the […]

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After the Columbine shootings, when a couple of teenagers in black overcoats strolled through their school shooting people with guns, other schools took steps to prevent copycat incidents by banning guns black overcoats. (Really!)
This week a Korean boy in a combat vest made a video of himself and strolled though his school shooting students, and […]

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The Conservapedia site looks like being a great source of entertainment, even despite the scary thought that those behind it are totally serious. For some reason, Wikipedia does not have an entry on it, but it is mentioned in the entry about the Eagle Forum.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the whole business is […]

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Another search I spotted today. Somebody from a West Sussex County Council IP address tried to search within this site for “renberence day” and then for “rememberence day”. I do hope that particular address belonged to one of their schools and not County Hall.
Not that it is a good thing for pupils in our […]

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I was going to mention this a week ago, but Richard Symonds has beaten me to it on his new blog. (One of an astonishing 27 which he has under his profile on Blogger! That is a serious habit - or would be if more than 2 of them were ever updated.)
Anyway, West Sussex County […]

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I spent a lot of Thursday not knowing whether to be proud of our boy or to lament falling standards in the exams. I know he did little work at school, hardly any homework and next to no revision. We were frequently told by his teachers how he had the intelligence to […]

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