Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.
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Angela’s new novel, The Allegations, is available on Kindle and Amazon, at Griffin in Penarth, Wellfield Bookshop, and Cardiff Bookspace, Crwys Road, and to order elsewhere.
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Hooray, it's #BookshopDay 📚
A perfect excuse to visit your local bookshop and grow your TBR pile #ChooseBookshops
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Entry has grown in recent years as colleges have become more aware of the qualification. The papers are a bit longer but having two rather than three is quite popular.
Yes, the Eduqas qualification has a much larger entry on F. It’s particularly popular in FE / post 16 colleges.
Sorted! One more than you need really.
We’ll also simply celebrate that mix of joy and wonder that comes from a reader or a writer of any age. And any class.
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Slippery slope
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Happy New Year!
8 x 0.1 =0.8; 0.8 x 3 =2.4
Surprisingly nice! Very thoughtfully done.
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20000 Streets is so funny but also heartbreaking. There was an excellent BBC adaptation about 20 years ago.
Have you tried any of his other novels? 20000 Streets Under The Sky and The Slaves of Solitude excellent too. One of my favourite novelists.
Christmas deer back at Cardiff Castle
I had no money growing up. Luckily, all my favourite things were free. Friends, nature & learning. This was the local library. Sometimes I was the only one in it. Sometimes the odd drunk popped in to vomit. Anyway, it all turned out OK.
@earthlypowers.bsky.social Some Anthony Burgess in your handle? A fine novel I thought - although it’s 40+ years since I read it
Late autumn over the University Broad, UEA, Norwich, Norfolk, UK. An image from the 1970s on 35mm transparency film.
Most people can’t tell real poetry from AI. Can you beat our quiz?
www.thetimes.com/article/9e87...
"Two lads looking forward to a life which was lost before it began in the futility of war ... "
Up to about 15 years ago this appeared in the South Wales Echo every November. It doesn’t anymore, presumably because these two docks boys' school pals are no longer around either.
And I’m not convinced in my experience that the old Speaking and Listening assessment led to better reading of poems aloud! But an interesting debate certainly
Yes, it does seem a bit daft. His main gripe appears to be with the way Shakespeare is examined. I think Eduqas is a bit better in this regard - but I suppose I would say that anyway. OMAM was popular and worked well but there must be other texts which work equally well.
Interesting point of view from a teacher in today’s Sunday Times
www.thetimes.com/article/b3d9...
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