Introduction:Continuous footways are designed to make walking, wheeling, and cycling easier, more efficient, and more pleasant for all, to slow down turning traffic and to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe. They reflect and reinforce the pedestrians’ right of way and the requirement for traffic turning at the entrance to a side street to stop andContinue reading “Not Quite Continuous Footways.”
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Books I might prescribe for people in despair after COP26:
The following books will help to inform, empower and encourage us. The list is far from complete, and of course, any and every book can inspire us, and feed our imagination, but these I think have a specific bearing on current crises, without focusing on melting ice sheets and extinction. I tried to list themContinue reading “Books I might prescribe for people in despair after COP26:”
Book Club – Ideas
See below for a list of the books I suggested. The aims of this group will be to read and discuss books. Appreciate the importance of ideas and the need for all kinds of them and sharing them. Feeding ideas into community groups and civil society. Promote resilience. Empowering people. Education for human flourishing. FulfillingContinue reading “Book Club – Ideas”
Reading at school and Online.
My Youtube reading channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6bEeBZvreIPuxvZ3WuAXA/videos Other readers online: Sequoyahhttps://youtu.be/NQdmskb614A
Welcome
Welcome to my blog and website. It brings together useful things to do with reading and vocabulary. I hope that you can learn enjoyably by browsing the information I have collected. Maybe you already love one of the books that I have chosen; and in that case, the book can be your doorway or diving-boardContinue reading “Welcome”
Fair Trade Kit-Kats?? (My Reply to Crown School’s post on this subject)
Actions speak louder than words, and what we encourage children to do, and eat, will have far more impact than information we tell them. The pupils selling Fair Trade Kit-Kats may be confused* and not alone in this. The attempt to confuse is quite deliberate, so please let me explain. We ourselves need to thinkContinue reading “Fair Trade Kit-Kats?? (My Reply to Crown School’s post on this subject)”
Who is “Making Waves” at the British Science Festival?
Would you like to sponsor the British Science Festival? Visit their website and click through to find a tempting offer: “Opportunity for your company to be involved in Festival programming – highlighting your current agenda”. The British Science Association’s dual aims of promoting the public understanding of science and promoting its sponsor’s current agenda could comeContinue reading “Who is “Making Waves” at the British Science Festival?”
Making Ripples 