Duncan: A curse on Moors and Saracens! If it were not for their ungodly ways, Master Robin would never have left. What manner of name is "Azeem"? Irish? Cornish? Azeem: Moorish. Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (1991) When teaching my students about England, 3 things always seemed to interest them the most. They didn’t really care about the famous architecture, and if I even dared to mention history they would all fall asleep almost instantaneously. They even got bored of Stonehenge when they found out that people weren’t sacrificed there. However, the 3 things that were alwa [View Full Entry]

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Back in the UK It’s funny how certain things, be they objects, places actions or words, are invested with different rules and meanings in different countries. In fact, in no two cities that I have lived in have the rules been identical. For example, if you suggest to a local in Plymouth that they might, perhaps, be a sheep bothering villain, a few words would be exchanged, but if you were to do the same thing in Cardiff then the whole establishment you were drinking in would be trying to cut your throat wit [View Full Entry]

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Most people who know me would probably suggest that I am rather opinionated, and have a lot of trouble accepting somebody else's viewpoint. Especially when I think it is total bolux. This has lead to a number of heated exchanges over the years, perhaps the most notable being almost getting into a fight with 6 boys from Efford who disagreed with my assertion that Plymouth was rubbish. These days I don't do anything as daft as randomly talking to inebriated groups of Ben Sherman toting boys, and restrict my debates to classrooms full of Korean women. Much more pleasant in every [View Full Entry]

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