Monthly Archives: June 2010

RIP Alan Plater

Alan Plater died last weekend. Not an incredibly well-known name, or a fashionable one, but one that had been somewhere near the top of my TV heroes list since I first saw The Beiderbecke Affair in the mid 1990s. Writing … Continue reading

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Dragon Boat

It’s the Dragon Boat festival this Monday. A few years in China and I still don’t really know what this means, besides eating zongzi (which V has spent the last week or so making). I suppose Easter just amounts to … Continue reading

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No why

One of the responsibilities I have in my new job is to interview applicants for our TEFL course. The point is mainly to test their English proficiency, but I also want to find out if they are motivated enough to … Continue reading

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