Speak Like A Child

I tried to learn Spanish last year. I grasped about four words. I also learned a simple but valuable lesson when it comes to trying to speak another language: Aim for communication rather than perfection. I used a couple of apps and this video:...

The Man With The Red Face

Sometimes, the internet’s brilliant for nothing other than giving us a laugh. One of my personal favourites is this: What’s the lesson here? Probably that life experience goes a long way. >>>Playlist<<<

Play The Game

Do kids know how Facebook and the other big social media platforms make money? Do they know why they make money? These days, it costs money if an individual or organisation wants to put a Facebook post in front of a few people. Without paying, the post won’t...

There Goes The Fear

I got a bit excited and added my recently registered domain to my new Instagram account: I haven’t yet built a new page – that’ll come soon – but, as I wrote here suggesting something along these lines, I have set up theinstabook.club (which...

Anybody’s Answer

Yesterday I wrote a post about Quora.com, a great resource for asking questions. There’s another great site I’ve used to find what questions people are asking, in the vague hope of being able to answer them via a website or book or something:...