Christmas (as in the non-religious celebration of consumption) is designed to compound all fledgling symptoms of nostalgia, homesickness, uprootedness. It’s designed to make you wish for things you didn’t even know you wanted, and more powerfully to wish for things you don’t have, without even knowing what they are! It’s a holiday designed to make [...]
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Christmas: a longing for belongings
Posted in Letters from Trieste, This Life, Thought for the Day, tagged belongings, charity, Christmas, desires, Lilly Allen, longings, wish list on December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
SAT’s Rant
Posted in Thought for the Day, tagged attendance, numeracy, SATs, SATs rant, school governor on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
School – and SATS – and attendance percentages – are another stress that has been winding me up this week. Seem to be the only governor who has no belief in the benefit of Sats whatsoever (and 2 kids four years apart having to endure them – for what?). To cap it all, a large [...]
The Virtues of a Good View
Posted in Letters from Trieste, Thought for the Day, tagged Adriatic Gulf, Castello di Miramare, Emperor Masimilliano, Greek islands, Levi's jeans, Piazza Unita, picture windows, Prosecco, room with a view, setting sun, Trieste, view, Yugslavia on April 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is my thought for the day: is a good view really worth it? I mean, literally, the price it costs to have one. Trieste is situated right on the Adriatic Gulf. The main city square, Piazza Unita’, leads down to the water; if you went inter-railing like I did in those days when everyone [...]
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